Amazon's Alexa subsidiary once offered a service much like you describe, called "Alexa Web Search". But: "The Alexa Web Search web service has been deprecated and is no longer available for new subscriptions." [1] Also, I think (but am not sure) the Alexa Web Information Service originally offered hosted read access to the full content of Alexa's recent crawls, but it no longer does. [2]
It also seemed like Amazon was building up web-scale search expertise in A9, but the only apparent results are work in metasearch/aggregation. (They already have a technology called 'OpenSearch' [3], so might have a hard time repurposing that name for something else.)
So it's almost as if Amazon was deeply considering your proposed strategy, then backed away.
It also seemed like Amazon was building up web-scale search expertise in A9, but the only apparent results are work in metasearch/aggregation. (They already have a technology called 'OpenSearch' [3], so might have a hard time repurposing that name for something else.)
So it's almost as if Amazon was deeply considering your proposed strategy, then backed away.
[1] http://aws.amazon.com/alexawebsearch/
[2] http://aws.amazon.com/awis/
[3] http://a9.com/-/company/opensearch.jsp