Editing Alexa Internet (section)

=====Search Status=====
Until 2007, a [[Third-party developer|third-party]]-supplied [[Add-on (Mozilla)#Plug-ins|Mozilla plug-in]] called Search Status for the [[Firefox]] browser<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ |title=SearchStatus: A Search Extension for Firefox and SeaMonkey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627071242/http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ |archive-date=27 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> served as the only option for Firefox users after Amazon abandoned its [[A9.com|A9]] toolbar.<ref name="a92">[http://toolbar.a9.com/ Home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608183909/http://toolbar.a9.com/ |date=June 8, 2008 }}. A9.com. Retrieved June 24, 2013.</ref> On July 16, 2007, Alexa released an official toolbar for Firefox called Sparky.<ref name="Sparky2">[http://awis.blogspot.com/2007/07/sparky-add-on-for-firefox-released.html "Sparky Add-on for Firefox Released Today"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070729134152/http://awis.blogspot.com/2007/07/sparky-add-on-for-firefox-released.html |date=July 29, 2007 }}. Alexa Blog. July 16, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2013.</ref> On 16 April 2008, many users reported drastic shifts in their Alexa rankings. Alexa confirmed this later in the day with an announcement that they had released an updated ranking system, claiming that they would now take into account more sources of data "beyond Alexa Toolbar users".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/site/company/announcement|title=Alexa Announcement|publisher=Alexa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424144640/https://www.alexa.com/site/company/announcement|archive-date=April 24, 2008|url-status=live|access-date=September 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/alexa-overhauls-ranking-system "Alexa Overhauls Ranking System"]. TechCrunch. April 16, 2008. Retrieved December 1, 2012.</ref>