New York: Yahoo has entered browsing market with the launch of its first web browser called Axis.
The web giant, battling to remain relevant and keep users, made the announcement of the launch last night in US.
The browser, which faces stiff competition from Google’s Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, has no search result pages. Instead, most of the time, users will receive their search results as a horizontal display of web page thumbnails. Or users will receive text boxes with results in them.
The design and functionality has been well received by the technology pundits who have tried it.
The Axis search browser will sync your data between you iOS device and your desktop computer (with your permission). The iOS app is free to download from iTunes and there is a free plugin for IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. An Axis search browser for Android will be available some time in the near future but its Android version/RAM requirements are not known as yet.
“Our search strategy is predicated on two core beliefs—one, that people want answers, not links and two, that consumer-facing search is ripe for innovative disruption, especially on the front-end,” Shashi Seth, senior vice president for Connections said in a press release. “With Axis, we have re-defined and re-architected the search and browse experience from the ground up.”
Google Chrome briefly became the world’s most popular web browser for one weekend in March 2012, but according to figures from Statcounter earlier this week, it has now overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the foreseeable future.
The Statcounter figures also suggest that Google Android’s built-in browser is now the most popular programme on mobile phones.
On desktops, Chrome and IE have been on around 33 per cent each, but the last week shows Chrome taking the lead.
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