Simon Willison’s Weblog

1st July 2007 - Link Blog

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

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 1st July 2007.

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