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user support on how to maximize the effectiveness of this data to get the most out of
it. The customer is empowered to write his own program to run against the
Alexa/Amazon data, download the results (metadata), and even create his own
private search engine on their platform. Perhaps I am wrong, but this could be a
huge development, perhaps even a major change in the way we use the web.
Amazon Web Services Platform
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/1 04-1308416-9976726?node=3435361 &
Alexa Web Search Platform (beta)
http://websearch.alexa.com/welcome.html
Alexa Web Search Platform Users Guide
http://pages.alexa.com/awsp/docs/WebHelp/AWSPUserGuide.htm
More Custom Search Sites
There are other' sites offering customized search that you may want to experiment
with to find one that best suits your needs. Search expert Phil Bradley reviews some
of these custom search sites in a two-part article on Searchenginewatch.com:
"Search Your Own Way," Part I,
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623434 and Part 2,
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623482
Eurekster's Swicki
PSS
http://swicki.eurekster.com/
http://www.pssdir.com/
Fagan Finder
The Fagan Finder site has been a boon to searchers for some time not so much
because of its basic interface, which is a good but unexceptional megasearch tool,
but because of the many other "useful tools" site creator Michael Fagan has made
available.
Fagan Finder File Format Search
Instead of having to visit a number of different search engines to search for files in a
variety of formats, users can now go to the Fagan Finder "search by File Format"
page, which is still in beta testing but appears to be running just fine. By selecting a
specific file format, e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint, Fagan Finder automatically shows
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