New Beyond411 release: Improving mobile web search speed and privacy
The new version 4.10 of Beyond411 features significantly faster web searches and greater protection of end-user privacy. It is now available for OTA install.
Using the Yahoo web search API and Beyond411’s internal markup language BML, web searches are now roughly twice as fast as before; these speedups are similar to those already achieved in 4.0 for local search.
Context menus allow the user to choose between visiting the original and mobilize-optimized versions of a page, with optimization performed by Skweezer.
End-user privacy is significantly enhanced. Unlike Google mobile search, Yahoo’s search service does not correlate end user search using cookies or rewrite links to track the user’s browsing history.
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[…] However, a new release of the search tool rectifies this situation by shifting to Yahoo web search API. Yahoo’s API does not use cookies to correlate end user searches, or reformat content. If the user explicitly chooses, the tool will reformat pages, using the smaller and less all-knowing Skweezer service rather than Google. […]
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