Amazon is giving people a chance to rent a copy of the net for themselves.
A copy of what?
Via its subsidiary Alexa, the e-commerce firm is letting people get at a regularly updated copy of much of the information found on the web. Via the Alexa service, anyone with a basic knowledge of programming will be able to search 4.5 billion web pages from more than 16 million websites for whatever they want.
Oh. And why?
The image search allows people to query all the metadata that digital cameras attach to snapshots which record when a picture was taken, which model and make of camera was used and the image's size. The Musipedia service lets people search for song melodies and lets them whistle a query and submit it to the database.
Oh. That sounds cool, I guess.
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