Web Search–Alexa/Google
New Services from Alexa Search
On April 30th of this year the VAS&ND featured a lengthy review of Alexa’s version of the Google database. In recent months Alexa has added several new features. Here’s a brief list.
1) After you conduct a search (you’re searching the full Google database) a new section and link is provided to see who’s linking to the page. In other words, this section contains the same info you’d find by doing a reverse link (link:) search . The sites are listed at the bottom of the info page as “Other sites that link to…”. What’s useful is that this link: filters out links to itself (not available with Google.Com). However, Alexa will only list other “sites” that link to a specific url, not specific pages.
2) “You can see daily traffic rank history going back one year for every site on the web. The graphs are located on the site detail pages. Just click the link labeled “Trends” in the navigation menu (upper left side of the page.)”. These rankings come from Alexa’s research. Here’s a trends graph for FBI.Gov. The graphs contain info at the site level.
3) Although it’s been available for some time, don’t forget that every Alexa page (left column) contains a direct link (url specific) to The Wayback Machine. This can save you a few clicks if you need to check if archived material is available.
4) New For the Alexa Toolbar
A “new feature that allows toolbar users to customize the layout of the search results. You can can choose the number of site thumbnails to show [from zero to all], include traffic rankings in the search results, and more. Look for this feature in your Alexa Toolbar Options page.”

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