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Yahoo to Launch "Chrome Killer" Tonight
- thezilch 14y agoNice, fast, mobile aware, and social... fantastic. <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1"> <meta property="og:title" content="Yahoo! Axis" /> <meta property="og:type" content="product" /> <meta property="og:url" content="http://axis.yahoo.com" /> <meta property="og:image" content="http://l.yimg.com/mk/micro/img/axis-icon64.png" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Yahoo! Axis" /> <meta property="fb:admins" content="100000203733930" /> <title>Yahoo! Axis</title> <body></body> </html>
- joshu 14y agothe admin maps to http://www.facebook.com/gaurav.malhotra.75 http://www.facebook.com/gaurav.malhotra.75
- phene 14y ago"Chrome Killer" from Yahoo... That's cute.
- quink 14y agoBwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Yahoo is going to dethrone the world's newly most popular browser. By putting in what are effectively iGoogle, Chrome Sync and Google Instant/Suggest in a new Webkit fork? Good luck with that project. Never mind the awful name. I think a bigger market share would prefer Yahoo! Allies over Yahoo! Axis. And the logo looks like something Saul Bass would have done for an agricultural concern in 1978. Edit: It's a browser extension. Well, absolutely no one will use it especially now.
- agosnell 14y agoShape of the logo reminds me of Adobe.
- bwb 14y agowhy thought? They just don't get it, why are they doing these things? Yahoo has no mission, they have crazy micro departments and no clear focus for picking winners / goals.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoYou could very easily say the same thing about Google. People do, in fact. Not that I expect this to in any way be good.
- BiWinning 14y agoYahoo is a well managed company on the forward curve of web technology and I look forward to something that will kill the bloated and poorly backed software that is Google Chrome.
- phene 14y agoPoe's Law at work here.
- nsmartt 14y agoThank you. I've learned of something I didn't know.
- OriginalSyn 14y agoNaw that's just classic sarcasm.
- phene 14y agoGiven the guy's karma, I don't know...
- AsylumWarden 14y agoI would love to have his karma. I screwed up with my first post and despite my best efforts I haven't moved up. Maybe if I show kindness to the new yahoo browser my karma will improve?
- freshhawk 14y ago"well managed company" Nah, that was a giveaway it was irony wasn't it?
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- starwed 14y agoI don't see that Yahoo called it that.
- kin 14y agohttp://axis.yahoo.com/ http://axis.yahoo.com/ doesn't work for me. Is anyone else having issues?
- antr 14y agoit's working, the site, albeit blank, has code FB OG meta.
- dandelany 14y agoPer the post, it won't be live til after 9pm tonight.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoOne of the comments noted the video was dated a year ago. Could be a mistake on the video, could be that this project never made it out of the silo last year and was just discovered. Or it could be that it won't be live until tomorrow. Like others I found the headline amusing because it doesn't seem like a credible strategy to 'attack' Google by replacing their browser.
- patrickod 14y agoI too tried the link and it didn't work.
- digamber_kamat 14y agoLink doesnt work. To build something that is called "chrome killer" you need to first put up a functioning website in place guys. Someone needs to be fired.
- cpeterso 14y agoAre you using the Yahoo! Browser?
- tubbo 14y agoyeah i feel like they dropped the ball on not making this just an extension for every other browser, and possibly a standalone for those looking to jump ship from their current browser. increase market share, decrease fragmentation. win/win...
- Estragon 14y agoUm, it is an extension for every browser. On your computer, axis is a plugin that easily works with your favorite browser. As you can see, Axis is at the bottom of your screen and stays with you as you browse the web. Starts at 1:25 in the video.
- gcb 14y agoWait, where in the press release they even mention chrome??? It's launch.co dumb headline.
- magicalist 14y agoAnd unfortunately that puts any conversation about it in a pretty moronic place. I'm skeptical, but more fluid and seamless search-browsing and device-to-device experiences could have at least inspired some decent conversations. Now we get "who is yahoo kidding?"
- TomGullen 14y agoChrome killer sounds, well, rather ambitious. IE killer was ambitious enough back in the day, and that browser had serious flaws.
- harryf 14y agoThe "move seamlessly across devices" feature has me wanting to try it at least. If it was possible to start typing a HN post on your phone then finish on your laptop, for example, that would be really cool. But a chrome killer? I doubt it. To kill chrome you'd need a far more compelling use case. To me the biggest problem on the web right now is there's too much to read. In fact there's an Amazon killer here too. It's never been so easy to own a lot of books but it's getting harder and harder to read them.
- ktizo 14y agoThe browser interface is ripe for disruption (the whole UI space is, really), but whether yahoo will do it remains to be seen. Personally I am pretty doubtful, although they do have the resources.
- birch25 14y agoWith ebook readers on your computer, tablet, phone, and dedicated (and cheap) ereaders I don't see how anyone could say that books are getting harder to read. It may be so easy to buy them that we are developing backlogs, but that is a problem of self control. There is a ton to read on the web right now. The current solution is to use a service like Instapaper, Readability, or Pocket that saves articles and renders them in a pleasurable format to read later. If you want that built into the browser, look no further than Safari which introduced "Reading List" in version 5.0 (the new version in Mountain Lion has offline reading as well). Opera has also announced they will have a feature like this in their next major release. There's always room for disruption. Firefox used customizability and standards compliance to disrupt IE's market. A few short years later Chrome used speed to disrupt IE and Firefox's market to become the most used browser in he world. Who will be next? I don't know, but I'm skeptical that Yahoo is the company who will do it.
- harryf 14y ago> With ebook readers on your computer, tablet, phone, and dedicated (and cheap) ereaders I don't see how anyone could say that books are getting harder to read. I expressed myself badly. The act of reading has never been so easy I agree. What I meant was when was the last time you finished a book? Or just got something meaningful out of a book? How about when you bought a book and never even started it? The problem being there's an oversupply of excellent books all just a download away but never enough time to read them. This is a problem we should be solving.
- zengr 14y agoOne year old (May 23, 2011) video: http://screen.yahoo.com/introducing-axis-from-yahoo-for-your-desktop-29344706.html http://screen.yahoo.com/introducing-axis-from-yahoo-for-your...
- netfire 14y agoGot to love those over-the-top effects. Glass-breaking, plants bursting out of the ground, etc. Don't really see Yahoo! being able to execute on this sort of thing though. I haven't seen anything really awesome from them for years.
- jonursenbach 14y agoThey've since taken the video down.
- jongalloway2 14y agoYahoo Axis shows up in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-axis-a-search-browser/id506520874?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-axis-a-search-browser/... I have no iDevices so no idea what it does.
- necenzurat 14y agoThe Fb:admin is http://graph.facebook.com/100000203733930 http://graph.facebook.com/100000203733930 and https://www.facebook.com/gaurav.malhotra.75 https://www.facebook.com/gaurav.malhotra.75 anyone know who is he?
- _feda_ 14y agoYou have to remember that when chrome was released it was clearly an attempt at a firefox killer, but obviously it hasn't killed firefox, and google never realistically expected it to do so. Google chrome has done very well at sequestering market share from firefox and internet explorer, but chrome is a google product, and lives up to the software standards that we've come to expect from them. I expect this effort from yahoo to be a token addition to an already crowded market.
- jsolson 14y ago> You have to remember that when chrome was released it was clearly an attempt at a firefox killer Really? I thought it was a (successful) attempt at building a good browser that addressed the needs of a wide variety of users. I didn't realize it was out to kill anything. That just seems barbaric.
- joshu 14y agoin 2006 i tried to convince Jerry that Yahoo needed to ship a browser. it only took six years for it to sink in, i guess.
- Jare 14y agoFrom the looks of it, you're in for a few more years of waiting. This thing is a plugin, not a browser.
- joshu 14y agoWell, I never thought they were going to write their own renderers or whatever. I thought it would be FF with the chrome heavily redone in a manner that made sense.
- quink 14y agoStill hasn't. It's a horrid browser add on. I dare you to install it and look at the list of popular searches without retching.
- lewisflude 14y ago* Checks calendar * hang on, it's not April 1st! I do have to say, after having a brief romance with Yahoo! in my teens, I'm looking forward to them doing something like this. As a web developer, if this becomes popular, and causes problems for me, there will be hell to pay. Come to think of it, I'll probably just ignore it if it causes me any issues. You've been warned Yahoo!
- mey 14y agoInteresting, trying to download it, results in it trying to load up a Google Chrome extension... Edit: Looks like it exists as a plugin for Firefox and Chrome, based on my testing with Opera... Edit2: Chrome Extension Firefox Extension Safari Extension
- btipling 14y agoIt's not a "Killer". The title is the worst kind of link bait. It doesn't replace Chrome in any shape or form. There's nothing Yahoo! has said to justify this title. Horrid submission to HN.
- wavephorm 14y agoYahoo is a dying company, quickly converting itself into a patent troll, and suing competitors in a desperate attempt to stay relevant long after they are. This is a dying company. I have ZERO respect for any employee of a company like this. The executives of this company that decided to become a patent troll should go hang themselves, or at least quit their jobs and save some semblance of self-respect.
- kamaal 14y ago>>This is a dying company. I have ZERO respect for any employee of a company like this. And I would have ZERO respect for any employee who runs from a company just because its dying. Those are the last kind people I would hire, because those are the classic cases of what Zed Shaw describes are the kind of people who work for successful companies, and not to work to make the company successful. Rats are first ones to run from a sinking ship. And employees who generally leave first during the times of crisis are generally people who have no qualities to be war time leaders, who can steer and motivate their teams in difficult times. I would never trust such people with any kind of work that is important. When I see such people, I often wonder what are they actually worth? If its for money and nothing else, what is the point in really hiring such people for important work? How can they even be trusted when to handle responsibilities in times of crisis, which forces them to quit? Its easy to continue work when things are normal in a successful flow. But its take a lot more heart and character to last through tough and difficult times. When I see people who want to join Google, or Facebook or <anything> just because its successful, and somebody else has already done the base work to make the company successful. I see people who just like to be part of somebody else's success without contributing nothing much to it.
- MichaelGG 14y agoThe video on axis.yahoo.com says it's a plugin for "your favourite browser" and shows the icons for Chrome, IE, FF, and Safari. So, it doesn't seem to be a separate browser. Also, the Axis logo looks nearly identical to Adobe's, apart from the colour.
- wavephorm 14y agoBrought to you by a patent troll that thinks it invented the concept of a news feed, and is suing every web publisher that displays new information in a list. Who can possibly take this company seriously anymore?
- swang 14y agoHere is a better article detailing what Yahoo Axis is. http://techland.time.com/2012/05/23/yahoos-axis-visual-search-an-ios-browser-and-no-ten-blue-links/ http://techland.time.com/2012/05/23/yahoos-axis-visual-searc...
- bpeebles 14y ago"Yahoo says ... is contemplating putting Axis on other mobile platforms such as Android."?! I can understand not supporting Linux at launch (but not forever). I can't understand only targeting iOS and then publicly saying you're not even planning on doing Android. Just that you're "contemplating" it.
- famousactress 14y agoAnyone else notice that at 0:12 in the video it appears that "how to make chloroform" is in the top few results when typing "how"? http://imgur.com/CVtff http://imgur.com/CVtff
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