Obidos (software)

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]

See also

• Óbidos, Portugal
• Óbidos, Pará

References

1. "tour-de-babel - steveyegge2". sites.google.com.
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". Google Maps. Retrieved 22 May 2023.