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Re:How would you build an internet scale web crawler? by ismail on Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:39PM (#16783698)
“Alexa could have been Google, but went in another direction.“

Curious, why did they go in another direction?

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Re:How would you build an internet scale web crawler? by tgamba on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:29PM (#16794462)
Amazon's stated reason for acquiring Alexa was to use Alexa's technology to build a recommendation engine. Search was never a priority for Alexa itself. We are acquired for $100 million, so it was take the money and run.
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