Alexa Research Reveals New Public Web Site; Site Offers International Statistics From the Internet's Largest User Panel.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000 Alexa Research, a division of Alexa Internet Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. , announced today that it has launched a new Web site that offers the most extensive, free site traffic ranking information available anywhere. The new site, http://www.alexaresearch.com, now includes statistics and information about global Web usage. Site rankings See page ranking. and in-depth, competitive research can be determined based on usage in 20 different countries and in such far-ranging regions as Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . This information is derived from Alexa Internet's panel of 500,000 users, 25 percent of whom are at work and 75 percent at home and is two-thirds U.S.-based, one-third international. "Now that Alexa has the largest user panel in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and overseas, we are excited to share, for free, the information Alexa has gathered from its large, multi-national user base," said Matthew Work, vice president of Alexa Research. "It's an incredibly useful resource where the size and breadth of data is unsurpassed in this industry." The site offers access to the Alexa 1,000, a complimentary, monthly distribution of traffic rankings for the top 1,000 sites on the Web. It also provides links to the Alexa 100,000 which details information on the Web's top 100,000 sites, on a paid subscriber basis. "The information provided by Alexa Research is particularly useful for e-business marketers, product managers, and even investors ... people who care about business on the Web," said Work. The Web site's user-friendly interface allows individuals to run reports for the top traffic gainers and losers, month-to-month comparisons and sub-domain drilldowns, among others. About Alexa Research Alexa Research, http://www.alexaresearch.com, is an organization dedicated to studying trends in behavior and content on the World Wide Web. Studies are based on the aggregated usage trails from 500,000 unique monthly users of the Alexa toolbar The Alexa Toolbar, an application produced by Alexa Internet, is a Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows that is used by Alexa to measure website statistics. It includes a popup blocker, a search engine entry box, a link to Amazon. service. The content studies rely on Alexa's archive of the Internet, a collection of over 20 terabytes of Web content. Alexa Research analyzes and distributes the information for free via the Alexa 1,000, and on a paid subscriber basis, the Alexa 100,000 as well as other competitive analyses. Alexa Research is a division of Alexa Internet. For more information on Alexa Research, call 415/561-6910. About Alexa Internet Alexa Internet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, is the leading provider of Related Information about the Web to help people make informed business and consumer decisions. Alexa's free Web navigation service makes surfing surfing, sport of gliding toward the shore on a breaking wave. Surfers originally used long, cumbersome wooden boards but now ride lightweight synthetic boards that allow a greater degree of maneuverability. smarter and easier by providing site-specific information including contact information, statistics, reviews, Related Links, news, reference, search and access to Alexa's Archive of the Web. Alexa's Related Information is available for use by corporations, content and service providers, advertising and marketing professionals and other organizations. Whether using the Web for research, comparison shopping or casual surfing, Alexa users have trusted site information available at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . The company donates a copy of the Web on an ongoing basis to the non-profit Internet Archive See Wayback Machine and Web archiving. , which is endowed en·dow tr.v. en·dowed, en·dow·ing, en·dows 1. To provide with property, income, or a source of income. 2. a. to preserve our digital heritage for scholarly access. The company is located on the Web at http://www.alexa.com, or at 415/561-6900. |
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