Version 7

We have been busy for the last month or so preparing the next version of the Alexa Toolbar, Version 7, for public beta. It's finally here and it has a pop up manager built-in. The goal of the Alexa Toolbar has always been to make surfing the web a better experience, and eliminating pop up ads goes a long way toward that end. We also spent a lot of time making speed improvements to this version of the toolbar. If you are one of the many people who gave up on the toolbar due to speed issues, you might want to try again. Get the new beta toolbar here.

Alexa has had a massive crawl index for years...  The crawl has been as large, and sometimes larger, than Google. But we've never used the crawl as part of a search engine - until today. Now, we are using Alexa's crawl index to supplement the Google search results. When Google comes up short, with 20 results or less, the Alexa index will be called into action and provide supplemental results. We don't expect the new Alexa Index to set the world on fire just yet. Yes, it is big. Very big, in fact. But it is still very primitive and unable to support most advanced queries. There is no independent interface into the Alexa Index. If you want to see it, you will have to type in a query in the Alexa Search box that challenges Google. It is hard to find a query where Google has less than 20 results, but fun. Give it a try