Alexa launched a charged hunting service

The famous Internet service company Alexa has launched a series of new services on its famous website, including services to access the database of millions of websites connected to the search toolbar. Alexa search.

Programmers who are registered to use the Alexa Web Search Platform can use the tools available in this service to create particularly efficient search engines, able to exploit everything. Of the 4 billion websites that Alexa 'scores' on.

Like Google, Alexa opens up the Application Program Interface (API) as components of the Alexa search engine, but the search results, especially the database, given by Alexa will be available. depth and value than Google, because this service is charged 1 USD / 1 hour using the service.

The Alexa Web Search Platform provides developers with an extremely effective method of identifying a set of search index documents, which facilitates people to develop extremely well-searched document applications. effective but almost no search engine can be done, in addition it also supports the export of search results in XML format. Its search results are a full set of text or HTML documents, and include a variety of graphics, audio or video files.

A good example of the Alexa Web Search Platform's level of detail and effectiveness is the http://photos.alexa.com image search service. This service allows users to 'refine' image search results to the most sophisticated level ever seen before.

Alexa Web Search Platform is still in beta testing, but Alexa still decides to charge users, probably because of its unique effectiveness. Charges include: 1 USD / hour for one CPU, 1 USD / year for 1 GB of Alexa server data, 1 USD for 50 GB of data processed by Alexa's system, 1 USD per GB of data in and out of the system and 1 USD for every 4,000 search results given by Alexa search engines.

Those who have never understood the effectiveness of this search engine may think that Alexa's service is a bit expensive, but it can actually list 1,000 data files about the same topic within minutes. .

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