Alexa’s Web Search Platform Releases Three Verticals to Showcase Platform including Robots.txt Search
While there has been a lot written lately about Amazon’s Web Services (including this recent video interview with Jeff Bezos) it’s easy to forget that Amazon’s Alexa service offers a web search platform (in addition to its public web search engine and rankings). Recently, Alexa’s team built three “alternative vertical search tools” to showcase the platform. Interesting demos and some reading for over the weekend. The robots.txt search is a fave.
+ robots.txt Search
Search by user agent. Interesting, cool, and even a bit fun. We just wish there were more ways to search. Results also available in XML. Here’s a search for sites with the Google-Media Partners bot mentioned in robots.txt. Also searches for the Googlebot-Image and MSNBot.
+ Camera Image Search
Search by: Camera Model, Focal Length, Exposure Time, and other criteria.
+ ZIP File Search
Search by file name, file date, file name.
Thanks to Tony Ruscoe for some help with this post.
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