In terms of technology giants and famous names from the web of old, they don’t really come any bigger or more well-known that Yahoo!
Once upon a time, the company was pretty much at the forefront of everything that happened, and at that time when the internet was growing and becoming an emerging tool. However, in more recent times, the company has fallen behind its competitors such as Google and has been plagued by behind the scenes corporate issues
Putting all of that aside, Yahoo! have surprised a few people by entering into the already-competitive web browser space by releasing mobile apps for Apple’s iOS platform, and has also pushed out extensions for the popular Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari desktop web browsers. The move may come as a little bit of a shock to some people.
Although unconventional, the Axis browser actually works very well, with it’s main novelty feature being that it doesn’t present the user with streams of text-based links upon hitting the search button. The search and results process is handled a little differently
Setting up Axis on your desktop browser is a piece of cake, keep in mind that this is not a full-fledge browser in any case, it’s just an extension for a bunch of different browsers
Simply head over to axis.yahoo.com and click on the yellow “Get it Now! Desktop” button on the top right hand corner of the page. Let the extension install and do it’s thing.
Once you’re done, you’ll see a black bar at the bottom of the page, that’s where the magic happens. Hovering your mouse pointer over said bar will expand it to reveal a bunch of options. The one you’re looking for at first is “Login”, click on it and login with your Yahoo! credentials, do the same on the iPhone/iPad client of Axis as well.
Once you’re all set, from this moment onwards, everything will be kept in sync, how easy is that? Quite easy, actually.
Although the focus is being placed on the unique way of handling search results, it’s worth remembering that results are still actually returned via the browser and are just handled in a more native manner. For the immediate future, Yahoo! are planning on keeping the browser ad-free and paying attention to the overall user-experience before starting to filter in revenue generating measures.
