Goodbye Alexa.com … Amazon decides to shut down Alexa for ranking sites next year

When the name Alexa is mentioned with the name Amazon anywhere, the thought goes directly to the company’s voice assistant with the great spread that it enjoys in the world and the Arab region recently with its launch in Arabic with a Gulf dialect in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the past few days, in addition to its availability in English. But this name before that was provided by the company with its site ranking and ranking site Alexa.com.

Alexa.com is the most prominent option for the public to know the ranking of sites and their rate of visits in the world, despite the decline in interest in these matters in the past years. On its way to stop next year.

The public will now appear when Alexa.com opens a message at the top stating that the site was officially discontinued on May 1, 2022, about 25 years after its launch, as it was launched in 1996 by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, who took the name from the Great Library of Alexandria The Ptolemaic Dynasty.

At its inception, Amazon acquired the service in 1999 in exchange for $250 million in shares in the parent company, to begin with it the stage of growth and expansion to provide other services on site classification and search services through search engines.

Registered users will be able to log into their account and continue to benefit from the service until the first of next May, after which they will be able to access their data only to export it outside the site in the form of external data for later use.

It is noteworthy that Amazon did not disclose the reason that prompted it to close the Alexa service for ranking sites, but it is possible that the decline in interest in the site’s ranking among the Internet audience had the most prominent effect.