Alexa is changing the world of web search and making it available to everyone. Today Alexa opens up its search API and gives access to the data stored in their archives since 1996, this data is estimated as being somewhere between 5 billion documents and 100 terabytes of data, I’m sure this is going to be a mashup developers delight.
Check out these reviews:
“Alexa totally gets it “
from Tech Crunch.
"Anyone can also use Alexa's servers and processing power to mine its index to discover things - perhaps, to outsource the crawl needed to create a vertical search engine, for example. Or maybe to build new kinds of search engines entirely, or ...well, whatever creative folks can dream up. And then, anyone can run that new service on Alexa's (er...Amazon's) platform, should they wish."
From Writer's Web.
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