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by ismail 2997 days ago
“Alexa could have been Google, but went in another direction.“

Curious, why did they go in another direction?
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tgamba 2996 days ago
Amazon's stated reason for acquiring Alexa was to use Alexa's technology to build a recommendation engine. Search was never a priority for Alexa itself. We are acquired for $100 million, so it was take the money and run.
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