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We will be retiring Alexa.com
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
The nice thing about "OK Google" was that it sounded a lot like "Cocaine Poodle", so you could imagine your personal assistant was a hyperactive creature of limited intelligence. Which honestly, sets expectations appropriately.
It seems to respond to "OK Goebbels"
Very appropriate.
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#163It was a bad idea 25 years ago, and still its a bad idea. I will never forget the day our company fired two brilliant marketing guys just because the Alexa ranking of the site dropped 100 points.
The issue is not that Alexa is a bad idea. The issue is your company has bad ideas.
Nah, just bad management.
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#164Here I was hoping that Amazon had come to their senses and had decided to retire the other Alexa. Oh, well. One day, maybe.
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#165It's sort of wild to think that Amazon purchased Alexa.com in 1999 for ~$250M in stock, and that stock would be worth more than $7B today, if my math is correct. Bought a website ranking company, used the company's name as the name of a consumer electronics assistant, and then shuttered the company 22 years later to (presumably) be able to use the domain name for more consumer electronics.
10 Billion. Honestly seems kind of low? I guess in SPY that would be only $650m, so definitely beating the benchmark.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
TIL about https://bookface.ycombinator.com/
I’m perplexed about “ whoredom.groups.ycombinator.com” ? From grandparents link
The traffic seems to come entirely from Umbrella DNS requests? https://domain.glass/whoredom.groups.ycombinator.com
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#168Can we avoid this somehow? Dang massive disappointment
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#169Such a bummer. Alexa played a key role in triggering my interest in programming and understanding data. I remember in 2007ish a relative showing me his blog with great pride that his blog was ranking in the top 20,000. It was amazing to me because if you search some specific terms on google and click next page enough times you can actually come across his website.
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#170we need a new Alexa, and on top of that, one that does the same for mobile apps and doesn't keep it behind a walled garden (looking at you appsumo).