Simon Willison’s Weblog

Processing Web Documents using Alexa Web Search, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. I’m not sure when it happened, but Alexa Web Search can be hooked in to EC2 now—presumably with free bandwidth between the two.

Posted 1st July 2007 at 7:19 pm

Recent articles

My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup - 9th August 2025
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers - 8th August 2025
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card - 7th August 2025

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