Amazon.com Opens Up Alexa Search Engine
Amazon.com is opening its Alexa search engine to web and software developers to create customized searches and vertical search engines, offering the ability to specify web crawls for the 5 billion documents in Alexa’s index.
Alexa, best known for the web traffic statistics it provides for sites, originated as a search company founded in 1996 by Bruce Gilliat and Brewster Kahle. Amazon acquired Alexa in April 1999 and is now offering the technology as a web service to developers.
The Alexa Web Search Platform Beta will allow developers to “create new search services without having to invest millions of dollars in crawl, storage, processing, search, and server technology,” according to a statement by San Francisco-based Alexa Internet.
Alexa and Amazon will be charging $1 for each CPU hour, gigabyte of storage, gigabyte of data uploaded, and 50 gigabytes of data processed.
posted by Fergie @ 12/13/2005 08:51:00 AM
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