The new design of the dev corner is a reflection of our continuing focus on our search engine. There is now an entire section of the dev corner devoted solely to Search. We expect this to be just the beginning of a broad array of search tools for developers. Our goal is to give unparalleled and unlimited access to search. Just think of it... where else can you:
- Take the reins of a Web crawler and direct it to crawl specific pages on specific domains and collect specific document types
- Mine the documents in the crawl and generate custom indices
- Reorder search results and create custom verticals
- Use your own advertising solution
This is by no means a complete list. I just put it together to illustrate a point. Where other search engines may give you access to their search results, they will tie your hands. You won't be able to access the raw documents in their crawl, create your own index, reorder the results or even use your own advertising solution. In some extreme cases they will only provide results if you give over part of your page to their ajax script. Why would these search giants create search solutions that are obviously limited and of little use to inventors? Because they are not interested in helping to create their next competitor.
Alexa on the other hand... that's exactly what we are here to do. We are here to build a platform for you. We are designing our services to be consumed and manipulated by developers and inventors. We fully expect that the next great search engine will be unimaginable to us and won't be based on a plain vanilla search index from one of the big boys. It will be built and based on a new idea and it will require the kind of access that only Alexa can provide.
You can get started in the new and revamped Developer's Corner.
