Alexa was one of the very few services, which could be easily used by anyone through an easy to use toolbar on their browser to find out the popularity of a website.
Most people have been finding this service quiet useful. One day Alexa said that you cannot use the service from “this IP address (Internet Protocol Address)” and then it started saying this for other IPs as well. We would like to know from the Internet community if this service is still functional or if it is shutdown for any reason.
They were assumed Spyware by most anti-spyware programs however, most people found their service quiet useful and not causing any harm except collecting data in order to feed it back to them.
Amazon company who bought Alexa in 1999, added alexa web services data in Alexa. Alexa uses a Web Crawl technology to collect data about website information and usage. Alxa.com home page is also inaccessible from the Internet currently in our tests.
Does anyone have any feedback on Alexa? if so, please write in comments.
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