open YouTube,” and jump straight to the website. Even faster is saying, “Alexa, play ___ on YouTube,” which should pop up related search results if Alexa understands you correctly.

Via John Battelle's Searchblog, Amazon's Alexa Web search engine is offering its index and a set of Web services--such as search, category browsing and metadata crawling--for building custom ...

The big search engines, despite having indexed billions of web pages, did not possess a deep understanding of user queries. Rather, they engaged in glorified guesswork: You typed a few keywords ...

And never mind that the Echo Show can't search YouTube ... Alexa, make it so. Call it a convergence if you like, but it's really just a natural evolution of our relationship with the web.

Amazon have been beta testing their web search platform and we have managed to get a hold of some screenshots as well as some information about it. Alexa is giving users and developers access to ...

Amazon's) platform, should they wish." Mashup heaven! Called the Alexa Web Search Platform, it will be available to use for quite reasonable fees. Will this make Amazon a major search player?

In today’s IT Blogwatch, we look at the uncritical, breathless buzz generated by Amazon’s Alexa web search “platform.” Not to mention Nizlopi and his unexpected contender for the UK’s ...