Obidos

Short description: Original page rendering engine used by Amazon.com

Obidos was the name used by Amazon.com^[1] for their original page rendering engine, and appears in many of their URLs such as https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596515162. Obidos was phased out in 2006 and replaced by the Gurupa engine.^[2] Amazon.com subsequently used the name for their building at 551 Boren Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109, United States.^[3]

It was named after the town of Óbidos in Brazil near the swiftest point on the Amazon River, which is in turn named after the town of Óbidos, Portugal.^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ "tour-de-babel - steveyegge2". http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel.
↑ “Amazon attempted to solve these problems by gradually shifting work off Obidos and moving to a distributed system called Gurupa.” Amazon.Com, Inc. v. Comm'r, 148 T.C. No. 8, 106 (U.S.T.C. Mar. 23, 2017)
↑ "Amazon - Obidos". https://www.google.com/maps/place/Amazon+-+Obidos/@47.6241876,-122.3367867,19z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x5490153a2884f395:0xaba15df5501266cf!8m2!3d47.6240686!4d-122.3361349!16s/g/1hd_tk2hz.

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[1] "tour-de-babel - steveyegge2". http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel.

[2] “Amazon attempted to solve these problems by gradually shifting work off Obidos and moving to a distributed system called Gurupa.” Amazon.Com, Inc. v. Comm'r, 148 T.C. No. 8, 106 (U.S.T.C. Mar. 23, 2017)

[3] "Amazon - Obidos". https://www.google.com/maps/place/Amazon+-+Obidos/@47.6241876,-122.3367867,19z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x5490153a2884f395:0xaba15df5501266cf!8m2!3d47.6240686!4d-122.3361349!16s/g/1hd_tk2hz.

Obidos

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