DeWitt Clinton

Forget everything else, this is the news I’ve been waiting a long time for.

According to Jeff on the Amazon Web Services blog, Amazon’s flagship API, the ECS (E-Commerce Service) now supports a search index called “All”. This index will bring back merged results from all of the catalogs. US only, and it is limited to the Keywords parameter (i.e., no sorting), and it only returns 5 pages of results, but this still a much desired feature.

A huge thank you to the AWS team and the Amazon search team (i.e., my friends at A9) for this feature.

Update:

It’s true, it works! I updated my venerable OpenSearch-enabled Amazon search engine (the one that let’s you save Amazon searches in your feed reader) to use the new ECS version.

Try it out at: aws.unto.net

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