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December 13, 2005
Outsource your search
Alexa (an Amazon company) has just gone public with "Alexa Web Crawl". From the blurb:
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.
Basically this service means you can build your own search engine on their APIs and even run it on their hardware. There is a price tag for doing all that however.
Posted by Matthew at December 13, 2005 04:35 PM