Thomas Edison
salt lake, ME (USA)
Role(s):
Edison & Co
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Location:
salt lake
Industry:
Sports/Recreation
Year Founded:
2007
Number Employees:
INVALID
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Alexa History
1996
Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users.
1997
September of 1997 the Alexa Toolbar version 1.0 was released. The toolbar featured Site Information, Related Links, access to archived pages, access to Encyclopaedia Britannica content, and an instant messaging feature.
1998
In 1998, Netscape built Alexa into the 4.0 version of the Netscape Navigator browser as the centerpiece of the "Smart Browsing" feature set. Meanwhile, the Alexa toolbar had clocked over 1 Million downloads. Alexa began a long partnership with the Library of Congress, donating a copy of Alexa's crawl of the web to the new digital library.
1999
In 1999, following Netscape's