Please don't close it, I really love this service, I guess Amazon got enough money to support this, isn't it?
We will be retiring Alexa.com
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#202I guess this also means that Auto Alexa Pro (the service that automatically improved your Alexa ranking) will stop working.
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#203Are there any alternatives? I enjoy watching the long-term decline of the websites of former employers I don't like.
Looking by the number of replies to this it possibly could be a viable side project with a few added premium features like notifications for downtime, data breach reports, etc etc...
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#204Amazon is going to buy the domain for sure. :-)
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Short, international, neutral name, somewhat easy to pronounce in many languages.
It’s also been a popular name for decades, http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Alexa-name-popularity.html . IMO, picking one of the most common US names for a voice assistant and then skipping the wake up phrase is dumb.
It's not dumb, it is a strategy.
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#206Interestingly, Alexa was founded by Brewster Kahle, who founded the Internet Archive contemporaneously (both in 1996). Interesting flow of ideas between the two projects - one to figure out what is getting traffic (commercial) and one to figure out how to preserve it (non-profit). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle
It's not just a flow of ideas; it's also a flow of web-page snapshots. IIRC, "Alexa" was named after the Library of Alexandria.
The internal project name of Google's web storage system was called Alexandria too. It since has been rewritten and renamed though
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#207IIRC, their crawler pushes (or pushed) a lot of page into the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. What kind of effect will this shutdown have on it?
No effect, I believe, since Alexa haven't been providing crawl data to the Internet Archive since January 2021. You can see this by looking at the "Items" graph on the Alexa Crawls collection [0] (I am not associated with the Internet Archive - just a very happy user!) [0] https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?tab=about
> No effect, I believe, since Alexa haven't been providing crawl data to the Internet Archive since January 2021.
Were they still providing value to the Wayback Machine at that point? Has their cessation had a significant impact on the Wayback Machine's crawling ability?
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#208WTF! Why?
There's not even a good reason like "we don't want to track you anymore" or something like that... just shutting down out of the blue?!
I use that site almost daily!
So do plenty of others! [0]