A9 Yellow Pages

Amazon's A9 today unveiled their version of the yellow pages. It includes storefront photos captured in an automated process, though only some locations have photos at the moment.

The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is “Block View,” which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street.

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