Turn one, build nothing but infantry, stockpile in Karelia and Moscow.

Axis of Slightly More Evil Than Chrome?

where is the tesla coil on this shiat

Surprise: It's good

Surprise: It's not.

First they need to solve the small issue of their private key being in the source code: Oops.

yahoo, being slightly behind google ever since it started

FTA: With Axis, you're supposed to be able to go directly from query to page, skipping the step of surfing a sea of links.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a mind-numbingly stupid idea? For the user anyway. For Yahoo this is awesome of course because it can now "conveniently" patch users directly into whatever search results Yahoo thinks is most relevant, and not necessarily what the user might think is.


FTA: Distribution, says Batraski. There are 700 million people using Yahoo, and they can all be marketed to. Also, Yahoo distributes browsers (mostly IE with the Yahoo embedded toolbar) to 80 million people a year.

So, infecting people's computers with unwanted software counts as "distribution" now?

I see this sort of thing all the time. Asked to look at some IE-related browser issue, I get IE up and realize that about half the vertical screen space is occupied with a half-dozen or so badly-arranged toolbars- the majority of them likely made it there by either by way of malware or slimy opt-out scamming. Yahoo is often among these.

When the user is asked how they got there, the answer is almost always some variation of "I don't know."

So yeah, sure all this "distributing" is real deliberate and has the user's wants in mind.


FTA: But Axis on the desktop is actually not its own browser, but rather a plug-in that works with the browser a user already has.

Moreover, an infected version of IE now counts as a "new browser"?

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I recall back when SBC Global took over my local ISP, and I recall them trying to cram one of those IE-with-embedded-Yahoo-Toolbar thingies down our throats.

I also recall a lot of my friends who made the mistake of installing it soon regretted it. I had to help several of them extract it from their systems. Apparently, once it got in, it held on as doggedly as any virus would.


FTA: Surprise: It's good.

Surprise: Rafe Needleman is in bed with Yahoo, and is likely the "Catcher" from the looks of it.

loonatic112358: yahoo, being slightly behind google ever since it started

I presume you mean since Google started?

Arkanaut: I presume you mean since Google started?

yes

UNC_Samurai: Turn one, build nothing but infantry, stockpile in Karelia and Moscow.

See, then I just build Mammoth tanks and roll right over you.

So its a rebranded IE?

Greenbeanx: So its a rebranded IE?

Yes. This is not a repeat from 1988.

or... pretty much any year after that.

And here I was think a custom browser that would take on chrome..lame..well seeing as yahoo fired all its staff and keeps firing its CEO. I should not be surprised. All that's good is games and email.

SkunkWerks: FTA: With Axis, you're supposed to be able to go directly from query to page, skipping the step of surfing a sea of links.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a mind-numbingly stupid idea? For the user anyway. For Yahoo this is awesome of course because it can now "conveniently" patch users directly into whatever search results Yahoo thinks is most relevant, and not necessarily what the user might think is.

Also FTA:
So, to be clear, there actually is a list of search results. It just looks a lot better because it's integrated into the browser.