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Amazon.com
Overview of web technologies used by Amazon.com.
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Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more
Online shopping from the earth's biggest selection of books, magazines, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes, jewellery, tools & hardware, housewares, furniture, sporting goods, beauty & personal care, broadband & dsl, gourmet food & just about anything else.

Online since: 1 November 1994
Popularity rank: Number 6 of all websites according to Alexa

Main visitors locations: Country
Visitors
Country Rank
United States
55.6%
3
South Korea
5%
4
China
4.8%
29

City
Visitors
City Rank
New York, NY, US
5.4%
4
Los Angeles, CA, US
4.2%
4 San Francisco, CA, US
3.6%
3

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Client-side Programming Language
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.
JavaScript

JavaScript Library
J Query is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, and animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resign.
J Query

Mark up Languages
HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is a language to define web pages.
HTML

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HTML Transitional 4.01
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