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Alexa announcement

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Subject: Alexa announcement
From: "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:24:52 EST
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This is a VERY important development:

http://websearch.alexa.com/welcome.html;jsessionid=C113C7838EBC40D4F32113475A5FBF0DAlexa

is making its entire service available to third-party developers. The Alexa Web "crawl" will thus be available to anyone who wants to build services on top of it. For members of this list that could include comprehensive Open Access databases and innovative manipulations of the content of such databases (data mining, etc.). Presumably this is what Stevan Harnad envisioned when he first postulated "scholarly skywriting" some years ago, though I am not aware that Professor Harnad ever proposed specific examples. An interesting parlor game would be to predict how many new services will come on board within three years as a result of the Alexa announcement, what their strategic implications are, and what legacy services are thus superseded. Joe Esposito

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