Is Google loosing its edge?
G oogle has recently become a synonym of leading edge both in business and technology. And there has been a good reason to expect new development and ideas come from them. So I was really surprised when this new and exciting concept came from Alexa . A lexa, an Amazon.Com company, on December 12, 2005 made its search infrastructure available to developers. This is very significant move that changes the perception of what can be done with Internet search. So far we have been able to search within the already prepared index. With Alexa crawlers, we can build custom indexes with custom attributes. As an example Alexa shows an image search application that lets users specify image-specific attributes like camera make and model and aperture settings and other. These attributes are not usually available in image search indexes (like Google Images ). The applications for the web search platform are limited only by creativity of their creators. You could imagine programming the crawlers to g...