Alexa powered by Windows Live

It has begun!

Alexa is now powered by Windows Live! I have used Alexa to get an indication of the site usage and was pleasantly surprised to see this change. this is probably the FIRST public site displaying the logo and represents that Microsoft Live Search has now matured enough to be trusted by 3rd parties...

Update: The whole of Amazon and now A9 search has adopted the Windows Live search. Google has been abandoned. IMHO, google is now directly competing with froogle.com with amazon.com and may have been the reason for the switch over coupled with maturation of the search technology from MS.

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Anonymous said…
u meant alexa is directly competing with froogle right ?
July 26, 2006 at 9:23:00 PM GMT+5:30
Abhishek Kant said…
Froogle promotes products and so does amazon.. so froogle competes with amazon.
July 28, 2006 at 4:07:00 PM GMT+5:30
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