Alexa Switched to Microsoft Windows Live Search & Drops Google Search

May 1, 2006 - 7:41 am 0 by
Filed Under Bing Search

Quietly Alexa switched from being powered by Google, for its Web search platform to Windows Live. If you conduct any search at Alexa now, you will see a new logo on the right top portion of the page that looks like;

windows-live-alexa.gif

I am surprised Microsoft didn't play this up, maybe it was part of some of the conditions of the switch?

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