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I don’t know if you guys noticed, but Alexa redesigned the site widgets, offering a cleaner, more appealing web 2.0 face. This really had to come. The old widgets were designed in an 1984 trend.
Here are some examples:
Another very interesting page I found on Alexa is a live demo of what you can do with Alexa’s API. Derrick Pallas built a demo application with which you can search the robots.txt files of all the websites in Alexa’s index. Now let’s see what websites disallow Googlebot ? Or the MediaPartners Bot ? Find websites that spam, disallow the AdsBot (arbitrage) etc.
Sure you could use Google to search robots.txt (alternative search) files, but those results are highly inaccurate, and represent 1% – 2% of what the above Alexa tool indexes.
Perhaps you want to search pictures that were taken with a specific digital camera model ?
The possibilities are endless.
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I took a look at this today and was quite happily surprised. There are a couple other sites that already did this for Alexa, but I’m glad they have it by default now. It’s a good improvement I think.
They also refurbished its traffic graphics, now they’re more like the ones you can see at alexaholic.com
Bug i still can’t understand how Alexa works. Is there some FAQ? Or may be you will make unofficial one? ;)
btw, excellent site!
Everyone is taking up this Web 2.0 trend aren’t they? Pretty soon you’ll look ancient if you’re not Web 2.0…
Web 2.0 is the future Robert :)
Web 3.0 is coming.
Well, good step! it’s really excellent site and i would appreciate if we get some more new features.
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