Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. {{nasdaq|AMZN}} is an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet. Amazon also owns Alexa Internet, a9.com, and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

Trivia

• Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought was the first book sold by Amazon.com on July 15, 1995.
• Some of the words in Amazon.com URLs are nods to the Amazon River and Brazil: obidos comes from Óbidos, the meeting place of the Amazon's tributaries; varzea is Portuguese (Brazil's main language) for a forest flooded after heavy rains, as parts of the Amazon forest are; gp is short for Gurupa, a region in northeastern Brazil near the mouth of the Amazon.