Online Marketing Strategies From Online Marketing Expert Nick Smith

Via Digg:

Rent the web. The whole web. From Amazon.com

Amazon.com owns Alexa (a small piece of the vast Amazon.com empire). As part of their many services, they keep a small backup of the internet, about 100 terabytes or so. You can rent that database and index it now, if you want.

Here’s the full story:

http://battellemedia.com/archives/002116.php

Right now it’s prohibitively expensive to crawl through the entire database, but not if you wanted to search and retrieve certain data …

I’m not sure exactly what this could be used for, but an interesting development nonetheless …