Andreas Dittes

Since 1996, Alexa has been crawling and storing the Web at millions of pages per day. Alexa has also been building out the infrastructure to store and analyze the data and serve it to toolbars, browsers, and websites worldwide.

(Awis)

Amazon hat wohl, wie zuvor schon Sun, gemerkt, dass es doch manchmal ganz gut fürs Image und strategische Marktplazierung sein kann, wenn man Daten und Dienste kostenlos anbietet und damit, wie Google mit seit langem schon, Erfolg hat.

Announcing the Alexa Web Search Platform Beta
Today, Alexa is releasing the Alexa Web Search Platform Beta (websearch.alexa.com), effectively opening up the Alexa Web Crawl and ushering in a new era where anybody can create new search services without having to invest millions of dollars in crawl, storage, processing, search and server technology.

(Alexa)

Lassen wir uns mal überraschen, wie die Konkurrenz darauf reagieren wird…

The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents — even create their own search engines — using Alexa’s search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service.

Home of Amazon, Home of the Alexa Websearch Platform, Home of Alexa, Home of Samplesite (Camera Image Search), Alexa Websearch Tour.

Features:

Three online web snapshots of up to 100 terabytes each

Powerful tools to sift through the content to create your own data set

Upload, compile and run your own programs on a processing cluster across the data set

Store your output on a storage cluster

Integrate your data into a search index

Access your new search via Amazon Web Services

Via: Techcrunch, Gigaom, Searchblog, Conversionrater, Makeyougohmm, Cybozu,

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