Alexa.com: Amazon hints of cloud based AI for retired web site

Alexa.com was acquired by Amazon many years ago; the web ranking tool provided metrics about active web sites and their traffic. The web site shared visualized data obtained from millions of installations of the free Alexa browser plugin; while not everyone in the world was using it, the Alexa ranking was a globally-acceptable metric to […]

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RIP Alexa.com

Rest in peace, Alexa.com. Alexa was founded as an independent company in 1996 and acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million dollars in stock. At its peak, Alexa provided web traffic data, global rankings, and other information for more than 30 million websites. More than 400 million people visited Alexa.com every month. Amazon announced […]

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#Amazon Echo registered 1000 domains after #Alexa malfunctioned

An Amazon Echo owner received a hefty bill from Uniregistry, after the popular voice-activated gadget went on a domain registration rampage. Shocked? So are we. Apparently, Amazon’s Alexa registered 1,000 domain names, without the Echo’s owner intending to. Bob Smith, the unsuspecting domainer, owns 2 cats by the name of Damien and Regis. On Friday […]

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World Net Daily: Your Alexa rankings will plummet, if you’re a Conservative!

An article over at the Conservative – aka, right wing – news web site, World Net Daily, proclaims that there is an ongoing conspiracy against Conservative web sites, staged by Amazon-owned Alexa.com. According to the article, the current mass drop in Alexa rankings witnessed worldwide, does not affect Liberal web sites such as NPR.org, The […]

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