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A huge piece of the internet is going away: back in the early 2000s I would use Alexa a lot it was a gold mine of information - to the point where some people bragged about their rank on Alexa - that was hilarious, like the modern "twitter followers" / "github stars"
Didn't Wikipedia show Alexa rank in info boxes on articles about websites / internet companies until recently?
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The world suddenly makes sense doesn’t it?
No a world where TikTok is the #1 website makes no sense at all. Though I suppose it's the sewer of the internet so it has to be everywhere.
anyone remember alexadex, a website stockmarket (using fake money) that took alexa's site rankings as the website's price? so many hours spent...
I ran alexadex! So many hours spent ... :)
Cos it sure as feck wasn't skill, i refuse to believe it!
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No a world where TikTok is the #1 website makes no sense at all. Though I suppose it's the sewer of the internet so it has to be everywhere.
I've never looked at TikTok but I look every once in a while to a user comment section of some pretty reputable world / local news sites. This alone leaves the impression that the world populace is but a bunch of dumb indoctrinated rabid racists and haters.
Did they announce this today? Seems pretty shitty to disable APIs the same day as the announcement.
Wow, that is a bummer! Alexa is my go-to place to get a first impression on how much traffic a website gets. I have never looked into how they get their data, I always assumed they get it from internet providers? Is there an alternative? SimilarWeb publishes their data with a huge delay, so it is not of much use for me. From my experience, it is also less reliable. It is crazy how valuable internet properties get clo…
Tranco list [1] is considered the most accurate source for relative site ranking by traffic. It is a result of triangulation of data from several sources (one of them is Alexa) and it what we use at Kagi Search for domain information [2] [1] https://tranco-list.eu/ [2] https://kagi.com
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I've never looked at TikTok but I look every once in a while to a user comment section of some pretty reputable world / local news sites. This alone leaves the impression that the world populace is but a bunch of dumb indoctrinated rabid racists and haters.
My gut feeling is that most are nation-backed trolls.
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How does Alexa work? It seems to me it’s hard for anyone except Google Analytics or Cloudflare to build such a service.
They used to have its own toolbar that tracked which websites users visit. After that, they've paid other browser add-ons to add their script and some websites voluntarily gave them their data by adding their tracker. It says so right on the about page (warning: unusable on mobile): https://www.alexa.com/about
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In essense, what the original Alexa did seems to have been internalized into Amazon ads (or their b2b analytics division), which is coincidently the fastest growing part of Amazon. Wonder why they used the Alexa name for their home assistant.
This just struck me, and I don't know if it's true, but a-lex could be a play on Greek and Latin for "not" and "written." Which is a pretty good name for a voice-based input system.
It is what drives A-lex-a under the hood.
In addition it uses another AWS service called Polly that generates speech from text.