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Interestingly, Alexa was founded by Brewster Kahle, who founded the Internet Archive contemporaneously (both in 1996). Interesting flow of ideas between the two
by jaimie 5y ago
Interestingly, 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle
- kragen 5y agoIt'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.
- bhawks 5y agoThe internal project name of Google's web storage system was called Alexandria too. It since has been rewritten and renamed though
- betamaxthetape 5y agoIt seems that the flow has reduced somewhat in recent months: 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]) [0] https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?tab=about https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?tab=about
- cookiengineer 5y agoI was digging through their entries, this is the latest scrape that I could find. Haven't successfully unpacked anything yet, but it seems to be legit [1]. [1] https://archive.org/download/alexa20200802-00 https://archive.org/download/alexa20200802-00