Comments on: Exclusive: Alexa Web Search Platform Beta

By: Yabaa! » Custom search engines, courtesy of Alexa and Amazon

Yabaa! » Custom search engines, courtesy of Alexa and Amazon — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:39:34 +0000

[...] Alexa Web Search Platform Beta It seems that users will be able to create any type of search engine, indexing particular types of data or a single or set of particular sites. This service seems to be very powerfull and ambitious, how well it works has not yet been determined. There is a form on the site to register for the beta, but we know that there are only a very small number of users at the moment so your chances of getting in soon are small. [...]

By: Nithanth Kudige

Nithanth Kudige — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:34:35 +0000

Great, and the screenshots sure look impressive ! Thanks for the informative information !

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By: Philipp Lenssen

Philipp Lenssen — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:14:58 +0000

I saw this in December last year but they never let me in. I also can’t access Amazon’s Mechanical Turk without a US bank account.

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:27:32 +0000

One thing I’ve never been able to figure out: does Alexa have its own crawler, or does it use its network of installed clients to pull Web data? Maybe some of y’all know.

By: Migs

Migs — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:03:13 +0000

I signed up for Alexa Web Search Platform in mid-December then got the rejection notice a month later.

I was planning a memetracker-related search.

By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive »

Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:06:22 +0000

[...] Amazon builds a service allowing anyone to make their own search engine. Woah. First they bring in dirt cheap file storage with Bittorrent support and now this. Amazon is turning into an infrastructure provider. Clever. Technorati Tags: blogging blogs ireland irish irishblogs [...]

By: oBeattie » Exclusive: Alexa Web Search Platform Beta

oBeattie » Exclusive: Alexa Web Search Platform Beta — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:32:42 +0000

[...] Source: TechCrunch [...]

By: None

None — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:38:30 +0000

RE: Above Comment

Note that you forgot the “m” in “.com” when listing the web site to which your name links.

Anyway, I attempted to send a Gmail invite to the address shown at the bottom of your site but it came back with a delivery error: “PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 551 not our customer.” Then I whois’ed your site and sent it to the listed proxy address.

By: Gene Murphy

Gene Murphy — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:19:07 +0000

hey all, i am new at this, certainly not new to computers, have a Gmail account but can not get a gmail address for email purposes. ? reasons i guess because i am a 30 year combat Vietnam Veteran, us marines need signs to show us just about everything, thus because I live in the Philippines with my 29 year old beautiful wife, even though we both have cell phones, but google says Philippines is not on their list to sign up for gmail….so can someone invite me please??
thanks in advance if anyone takes me up on this…god got to be some americans out here who still have some compassion left for an old “jarheaqd” respectfully
Gene & Jennifer Murphy

By: this

this — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:40:48 +0000

Whoa.

Spammers are gonna tear this thing to pieces.

By: @runb@laj!

@runb@laj! — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:28:05 +0000

wow superb service

next thing i hear is that theres going to be a unique search engine created using alexa and launched in 10-20 days

googles api is very very limited

so is vasts api also

bye

By: Blaze

Blaze — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:58:37 +0000

By the way, You mis-spelt ambitious. You’d think with all the innovation in web2.0 these days they’d have spell checkers in blog software :p…

But anyway this looks very very interesting. Giving the power to the people hey? I guess this will encompass everthing from crawling a users personal web site to creating full niche search engines. I’d love to see how customisable it is. It will be a while I guess. Congrats on alexa/amazon for keeping ip with the race though, they are doing well in my opinion.

By: Saul Weiner

Saul Weiner — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:58:00 +0000

Michael, is this a play to disrupt Google and get it to refocus?

By: Oliver Zheng

Oliver Zheng — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:38:08 +0000

The screenshots look pretty impressive. Amazon has never failed at anything big. I hope this one will actually be useful to web developers.