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martin52583

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Registered: 4/11/08

Re: Deprecation of the Alexa Web Search service
Posted: Nov 27, 2008 3:00 AM PST

We are announcing the deprecation of the Alexa Web Search service as of November 26, 2008. After this date, the Alexa Web Search service will be closed to new subscriptions. The service will continue to be operational for 60 days until February 26, 2009.

Thank you,
- The Alexa Web Services Team

That's unbelievable! I just finished a big project using Alexa Web Search service.
How can I trust any AWS in the future? It's not possible to develop anything with them if the service is stopped within a couple of days like this!

Really disappointing!

alexadeveloper

Posts: 2
Registered: 7/14/06

Re: Deprecation of the Alexa Web Search service
Posted: Dec 1, 2008 4:49 PM PST

in response to: martin52583

martin52583 , et al,

The service is being deprecated over a period of 60 days. It will be available until then - until Jan 26th, 2009. So, you do have a couple of months during which you can port your current apps/services to another platform such as...

http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?apicat=Search

We are extremely sorry for the disappointment and inconvenience this decision has caused you and appreciate the support that we have gotten from developers like you. Thank you.

jkwilson78

Posts: 10
Registered: 8/25/07

Re: Deprecation of the Alexa Web Search service
Posted: Dec 2, 2008 6:48 AM PST

in response to: alexadeveloper

The problem is that none of those platforms that I am aware of have the capabilities of AWS.

Wouldn't it make more sense to just close the doors to new folks and let those that are using it keep access?

Oh, well.

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