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ignoramous 60 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenSearch 3.0 Released

> Just learning about OpenSearch. Looks like ...

OpenSearch was once a personal search results aggregator conceived at A9 (Amazon's Silicon Valley subsidiary): https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch

Blackthorn 60 days ago [–]

Sometimes, the same name refers to multiple things.

ignoramous 47 days ago | [–]

The difference here is, Amazon's repurposing a Trade Mark it owned already for something else entirely.

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