Traffick | The Book on Amazon.com's A9 Search Engine: "I'm less than enthused, however, about the 'Site Info' button associated with each search result, which displays Alexa data when you mouse over it. At least for the time being, Alexa's stats are practically useless. Their numbers are only based on the small number of people who have enabled the Alexa toolbar in Internet Explorer. But, now that Amazon has the means to more accurately measure how popular sites are, maybe Alexa's quality will improve. That wouldn't be a bad thing...
Similar to blogging: The Diary button enables you to store notes about particular pages, which should become a cherished feature for students, journalists and info junkies everywhere. Since it's web-based, you can supposedly access it from anywhere. Can you see that Amazon's going to be collecting an avalanche of data in no time? The demands on Amazon's infrastructure will likely prove considerable, "
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