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Alexa Web Search

Alexa internet was founded in the year 1996 by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gillia.

History

After its formation in 1996, Alexa toolbar version 1.0 was released in 1997. It has features like Site Information, Related Links, access to archived pages, access to Encyclopedia Britannica content, and an instant messaging feature.

In 1998, Netscape in its Netscape Navigator browser version 4.0 built Alexa as the centerpiece of the “Smart Browsing” feature set. Also, Alexa began its long partnership with the Library of Congress.

Products and Services

Alexa Toolbar

It was released in 1997. This tool is placed over browser and provides information such as Site Information, Related Links, access to archived pages etc.

Alexa.com"""

It was built to provide relevant and timely information of the web content. Some of the features such as thumbnail images of the site, site information balloons to help in making quick decision about results that are useful. It also built database of information about the sites.

Data Collection

Alexa gathers information from all the publicly available websites to create snapshots of the websites. These data are used to create features and services like Traffic rankings, pictures of sites, related links etc. Alexa has been crawling websites since 1996 and has gathered 4.5 Billion pages from about 16 million websites. It gathers about 1.6 Terabytes (1600 gigabytes) of web content per day.

Donation of Information to Internet Archive

Alexa Internet donates information about the websites to Internet Archive, non-profit making organization committed to the long-term preservation and maintenance of a growing collection of data about the Web which will be useful for the historians, scholars and other interested parties.

Address

Presidio Bldg 37 PO Box 29141

San Francisco CA 94129 US

Contact

Office

+1 415 561 6900, Fax: 1 415 561 6795

Discussion

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External Links

• Stock: AMZN
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