Axis, a New Browser Yahoo!

Online media giant Yahoo! tempted to enjoy the hubbub browser market. Thursday, May 24, 2012, Yahoo! launched its browser called Axis. Surfers engine is claimed to be an extension of Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

Axis claimed to refine the search through a browser with a single step. The key is to make the search more visual than text based. "We focus on front-end," said Ethan Batraski, Yahoo! Director of Product Development.

Batraski confident in the future experience of finding information in cyberspace will continue to grow. Axis will be present as an application for tablets, smart phones and personal computers. When you type a keyword search on the top left corner of the Axis, would come out of the title search results and the corresponding page. To select a search result, visitors, staying shifts to the right of the page that appears.

Search results in the form of small-sized pages. In it there are thumbnail images that illustrate your search keywords. "This process is expected to accommodate you on a quest of information," said Batraski.

Axis two main advantages include a screen that can enlarge, customize search results with thumbnail images. Then search through as much fun as a smart phone through a tablet or a personal computer.

Yahoo! claimed Axis can search for keywords and find a site faster than existing browsers. But more interesting is the Axis offers a space for advertising without disrupting users. Batraski decipher if you are looking for about Chevy, for example, the possibility of drawing up Camaro in it.

Yahoo! was still being careful to spit on the Axis flexibility ads. Because they are still looking for people's experience of the baby this browser. "It may be advertising on browser development laboratory," said Batraski.

A blogger discovered that Axis chance to enter a dangerous attacker. Nik Cubrilovic, the owner of that blog, find the certificate file that makes it easy to use Yahoo! malicious attacker (malicious attacker) could create a fake extension as an identifier of Yahoo!.

False extension, according to Nik, can capture all traffic, including keyword, session cookies, and others. Nik admitted that he had reported to Yahoo! about this weakness, but not yet received a reply.