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Dec 10, 2021 · The ecommerce giant is closing down Alexa.com, an online service that the vast majority of Amazon customers are likely unaware even existed. However, for old school internet users, Alexa.com has ...
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Dec 9, 2021 · The web ranking service will shut down May 1, 2022. By James Vincent, a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Amazon is shutting down Alexa Internet ...
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Dec 9, 2021 · Amazon Is Shutting Down Alexa Internet, Its Web Ranking Site (Not the Voice Assistant) By Todd Spangler. ... Amazon acquired Alexa Internet in 1999 for $250 million in stock, three years after it ...
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By Desire Athow
published 9 December 2021
No, not THAT Alexa but the other one that’s cherished by the SEO community
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This article was update to clarify that Amazon is ending the original Alexa service, known as Alexa Internet.
"Twenty-five years ago, we founded Alexa Internet," the site's blog psot read. "After two decades of helping you find, reach, and convert your digital audience, we’ve made the difficult decision to retire Alexa.com on May 1, 2022. Thank you for making us your go-to resource for content research, competitive analysis, keyword research, and so much more."
Amazon has not added any further information on why it is closing Alexa.com, but there’s at least two main reasons why. First, the obvious fact that the "other" Alexa needs to live on its own domain name and has grown big enough to justify this.
Secondly, Alexa, the internet service provider, now operates in a super competitive marketplace where the likes of Similarweb, Ahref, SEMrush, Moz, AWR and other rank checking services and SEO tools offer more comprehensive services at an aggressively fast cadence.
At the end of the day, Alexa has done its time, and after 25 years, it deserves to be sunset. The Alexa Rating no longer means anything - with this Google Trends graph, highlights this better than anything else.
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Dec 9, 2021 · Amazon hit by major technical issues. Amazon is shutting down Alexa, its internet-tracking service that is unconnected to the identically named voice assistant. With the full name Alexa Internet, the service tracks how popular websites are by monitoring traffic as users navigate around. It had made the “difficult decision to retire” the ...
Dec 9, 2021 · But in 2021, the original Alexa is still up and kicking—the same way that a search engine like Yahoo!, is up and kicking—but it’s more of a relic than anything else. And it won’t be around ...
