Would you like to buy the Internet? Well, Alexa, the premier web ranking service, is offering just that. According to their web site:
Massive Archive.
Spanning seven years, filling over 500 Terabytes of online storage and expanding at a rate of 30 Terabytes per month, the Alexa archive represents the largest collection of Web information in the world today.Largest bi-Monthly Crawl
Compare Alexa with the largest search indexes and you’ll see, Alexa is the largest — over 3.5 billion unique URLs, 3 billion unique pages, all updated every 60 days. All this can be yours.Powerful Tools.
To explore information that is ten times the size of the Library of Congress, Alexa has developed a proprietary operating system and a powerful set of data mining tools that leverage excess process capacity on hundreds of parallel computers.
How large is the crawl?
Very, very large. The crawl is over 60 Terabytes in size, spanning over 3.5 billion unique URLs. This is larger than Google, and approximately 4 times larger than Altavista’s published size.
How often is the crawl updated?
The web-wide crawl takes approximately 2 months to complete. Special collections may be created on request and updated as often as needed.
How much does this service cost? Dude…if you have to ask…
By the way, I recently downloaded the Alexa Toolbar. I’ve been pretty happy with it so far. It’s basically a free service letting you know what the overall rank of the page is you are viewing (shrubbloggers.com is at 363,010, up nearly 100,000 from a month ago) and gives you both reviews and links to other sites that may interest you. I would encourage everyone out there to download a copy…and hey! Write a review of shrubbloggers while you’re at it.
