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I'm ColinSaunders, program manager of the Alexa Web Search Platform. I'll be leading a discussion on Alexa's APIs at 4:15, in the Boole room, immediately following JeffBarr 's discussion of Amazon APIs.

Want an account? Visit http://websearch.alexa.com , email me: colin@alexa.com

Some seeds to spawn discussion:

• Alexa APIs

  * traffic information
  * related links
  * web map
  * search

• Web Search Platform

  * shell access to Alexa's crawl   hundreds of CPUs

• ideas

  * datamining
  * vertical search

• how to use the web search platform

  * define the collection
  * process the data
  * build your index
  * serve requests

• examples

  * http://alexadex.com -- stock market game using alexa traffic rank info
  * http://giflix.com -- the youtube of animated gifs
  * http://vcardgo.com -- microformat search