soulxtc
December 15th, 2005, 08:23 AM
Amazon is giving people a chance to rent a copy of the net for themselves.
Via its subsidiary Alexa, the e-commerce firm is letting people get at a regularly updated copy of much of the information found on the web.
Via the Alexa service, anyone with a basic knowledge of programming will be able to search 4.5 billion web pages from more than 16 million websites for whatever they want.
Prices for the service start at $1 per processor per hour to crunch the data.
READ ARTICLE (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530978.stm)
Via its subsidiary Alexa, the e-commerce firm is letting people get at a regularly updated copy of much of the information found on the web.
Via the Alexa service, anyone with a basic knowledge of programming will be able to search 4.5 billion web pages from more than 16 million websites for whatever they want.
Prices for the service start at $1 per processor per hour to crunch the data.
READ ARTICLE (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530978.stm)