The First Alexa mashup?

There has been lots of buzz around the announcement by Alexa (Amazon) that they’ll be adding a API. I think this is good news for Alexa. I haven’t heard of many ideas of how the Alexa API will be used. However, I’m sure there are a lot of smart people out there that will come up with something cool especially since alexa has indexed 4.5 billion pages from over 16 million Web sites.

I think it would be cool (this might be the most obvious) if someone can use the Alexa API to create a search that will show results, in order, of the Alexa rankings or reach. If you had a search product like that, then for your website to show up, say, in the top 10 you would have to have a Alexa ranking of 10k or less. If you wanted high placement on said search then you would have to spend more time getting people to view your site than linking to it. Anyway, it’s just a idea.

If you have an idea for the Alexa API then post it in the comments here. That is of course, if you don’t mind sharing it with the world (my world is only about 25k uniques per month)

Read what others have been saying about the Alexa Announcement:

• Dan Farber at ZDnet
• Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web
• Michael Arrington at Techcrunch
• John Battelle at Searchblog
• Om Mallik at Gigaom
• Busines 2.0
  

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