Alexa Internet

Alexa Internet is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com. Its website is best known for providing information on the web traffic to sites in its index. Its premises are in Building 37 of the Presidio of San Francisco.

Founded in ).

Alexa collects information on Web usage through the Alexa Toolbar. This allows them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as related link information. The Alexa Toolbar has a bad reputation with anti-Spyware programs, as it collects information on search habits.

In 1999, Alexa was acquired by Amazon.com for about $250 million in Amazon stock. The site info link on the Alexa site lists related links for websites and also records how much web traffic they receive. Alexa began a partnership with Google in Spring (season) 2002, and with Open Directory in January 2003 2003. Today, Alexa is primarily a Google-based search engine, an Open Directory-based web directory, and a supplier of site information.

Alexa also provides site info for the A9.com search engine.

= See also =

List of search engines

List of web directories

Alexa Toolbar

= External links =

[http://www.alexa.com Alexa Internet]

**[http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/traffic_learn_more.html About the Alexa Traffic Rankings] **[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org Alexa rank of wikipedia.org]

[http://www.archive.org The Internet Archive]