For the virtual assistant of Amazon, see Amazon Alexa.
Alexa Internet, Inc.
Alexa home page as of May 1, 2022
Type of site
Web traffic and ranking
Available in
English
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Owner
Amazon
Created by
Brewster Kahle, Bruce Gilliat
President
Andrew Ramm[1]
Key people
Andrew Ramm (president and GM) Dave Sherfese (vice president)[1]
Industry
Web traffic
Products
Alexa Web Search (discontinued 2008) Alexa toolbar
URL
alexa.com
Registration
Optional
Launched
April 1, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-04-01)[2]
Current status
Discontinued (as of May 1, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-05-01))
Alexa Internet, Inc. was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco. It was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon.
Alexa was founded as an independent company in 1996 and acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million in stock.[3] Alexa provided web traffic data, global rankings, and other information on over 30 million websites.[4] Alexa estimated website traffic based on a sample of millions of Internet users using browser extensions as well as from sites that had chosen to install an Alexa script.[5] As of 2020, its website was visited by over 400 million people every month.[citation needed]
In December 2021, Amazon announced that it would be shutting down its Alexa Internet subsidiary. The service was then discontinued on May 1, 2022.[6][7]
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