Alexa Internet, Inc. was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco, California. Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat founded it as an independent company in 1996. Alexa provided web traffic data, global rankings and other information on over 30 million websites, estimating traffic from a sample of millions of Internet users using browser extensions and from sites that had chosen to install an Alexa script. Amazon acquired it in 1999 for 250 million dollars in stock and discontinued the service on 1 May 2022.
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based in San Francisco, California
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founded as an independent company by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat in 1996
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Amazon discontinued the Alexa Internet service on May 1, 2022
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based in San Francisco, California
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was an American web traffic analysis company
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It was acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million in stock
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was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco, California
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co-founded Alexa Internet in 1996
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