Amazon rents access to a copy of the Web

“Amazon is selling access to its 5 billion document, 100-terabyte web-index. The index is complied by Alexa, an Amazon division that also powers the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Amazon is renting access to the whole, raw database, so that you can build your own search tools and data-mining projects with it.”

Boing Boing

Cool! This might have some pretty interesting consequences.