Amazon Ignites Distributed Search Innovation
I was a bit bullish on the Amazon move to open up their Alexa search API. It appears that people are just starting to use the Amazon Search API to create interesting indexes. I can't imagine any of these examples being greenlighted at the big search companies, because they are such small problems. But, they are certainly small problems that are nice to have solved:
From the Alexa – Web Discovery Machine blog.
* Camera image search – Lets you see what pictures taken by different cameras look like
* Robots.txt Search – Lets you see who's getting blocked by whom
* Zip File Search – Lets you search for files buried in zip files on the Web
It'd be cool to see some social search applications built on top of the platform.
~admin
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