Article by Peter Sayer, IDG News Service, Paris Bureau Alexa Internet Inc. is offering online computing capacity for US$1 an hour -- and throwing in access to the database of millions of Web pages that lurk behind its Alexa toolbar search service. Programmers who register for the beta version of Alexa Web Search Platform, released Tuesday, can use it to create specialized search engines for vertical markets, drawing results from the database of 4 billion Web pages crawled by Alexa, the company said. Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. Following in the footsteps of Google Inc., Alexa is opening up the API (application programming interface) to parts of its search engine, but going one better by offering to host applications that build on its database -- for a fee. Programmers remixing Google's search utilities must organize their own application hosting. Alexa Web Search Platform gives programmers a way to specify a subset of documents from the archive, develop an application t
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