Results are now powered by the Alexa Web Search Platform (Beta).
From their blog:
<< While sample applications were useful demos of what's possible, some of our customers have asked, "Is it possible to build a real search engine using the platform?" It's a good question. So we gave it a shot and here's what we came up with. >>
http://awis.blogspot.com/2006/09/released-today-alexa-search-beta.html
Some sample "vertical" search engines that also use this platform (taken from their post):
Camera Image Search: http://www.alexa.com/site/devcorner/cis Robots.txt Search: http://www.alexa.com/site/devcorner/rdt ZIP Search: http://www.alexa.com/site/devcorner/zip
I wonder if they'll migrate http://a9.com to use this platform too...? |
First A9 and now Alexa. Ay! :( |
They've used MSN Search for some time. |
yes, I thought they moved to MSN search @ Q2/06 . |
Smart people at Amazon. Their search engine is very good, almost as good as Google. |
Well, the first results are OK, but they have problems with duplicates. |