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Amazon.com has decided to put the Internet up for rent via their subsidiary Alexa. The service gives anyone access to nearly all of the information available on the world wide web, nearly 300 terabytes of information, which is updated monthly.

Via the Alexa service, anyone with a basic knowledge of programming will be able to search 4.5 billion web pages from more than 16 million websites for whatever they want.

Prices for the service start at $1 per processor per hour to crunch the data.

Amazon is hoping this move will help them challenge Google and Yahoo’s search dominance.

[via The BBC]

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