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Yahoo! Inc. launches own browser 'Axis' | American web giant Yahoo has launched a web browser called Axis, in a bid to define the company and its goals. The announcement was made in the U.S.
last night, as the firm, which has recently lost its chief executive, battles
to remain relevant and keep its users. "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," said Shashi Seth, Senior Vice President,
Connections, Yahoo! Inc. According to The Telegraph, 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 some technology pundits who have used it till now. "Axis does nonetheless have
a much better way of getting you from searching to visiting a Web page. The browser
works well. This is an aggressive product for the struggling Yahoo to launch out
of its search group... The Axis browser may not conquer the world, but it is a
very strong mobile product with an important new design concept for search," Rafe
Needleman, editor-at-large at technology site Cnet, was reported, as saying. The
browser is also available to download across all Apple's iOS devices and as a
desktop plug-in for HTML5-enabled browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer
and Apple's Safari.
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