Amazon's Alexa Web Search allowed developers to build search engines from cached pages: Alexa is a combination of site traffic and search engine, designed originally (by Brewster Kahle) as a means of archiving the Web in a different way from the Internet Archive, a parallel and independent non-profit operation. Alexa Web Search allowed developers to use Alexa's cache to build custom search engine results. It wasn't used much, apparently.
No new users are being accepted as of yesterday (26-November-2008); the use of Alexa Web Search goes away on 26-January-2009. [link via John Cook at TechFlash]
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