Internetweek, just ran an article called a very good article called: IE7 Vs. Everyone Else, where they let four tech expert battel over which is the best browser. One of the experts, Ron White from Networking Computing wrote this superbt piece in support of Maxthon, as the best alternative:

The first rule of Maxthon is, “Don’t talk about Maxthon.” If Firefox and Opera are underground favorites among Web surfers, then Maxthon must be the double-dog double-secret browser. Over the last four years, Maxthon has quietly developed a base of devoted — and tight-lipped — users who make the Illuminati seem like exhibitionists. How obscure is Maxthon? It’s so obscure that, despite more than 46 million downloads, even Google barely knows about it. When I did a search for Firefox, Google yielded some 412 million hits, while a search for Maxthon returned a scant 4 million. I can get more hits than that off my own name. (Of course, it helps if you share a name with a well-known comedian.)

Usually such obscurity is well deserved. But in the case of Maxthon, it’s as though Jack Nicholson never made it out of B horror flicks. Maxthon is simply the most powerful, and yet the simplest, browser to be used anywhere, anytime, by anyone.

Ron White, really managed to capture much of the spirit of the Maxthon community by saying that we” make the Illuminati seem like exhibitionists” – that’s hilarious! Ron continues,

When you install Maxthon, it emerges on your screen fully decked out in an array of features and tools and conveniences, as if to say “We’ve anticipated everything you could possibly need for your surfing.” It’s like being on a safari with room service.

Ron then comes to what sets Maxthon apart:

What sets Maxthon apart is pure brawn. To say it browses is misleading. It blitzes the Internet like a cybertank wrapped in armor plate and studded with heavy-duty weaponry.

Finally, towards the end of the article, Ron asks, why we haven’t heard about Maxthon?:

All this invites the inevitable question, “If Maxthon is so smart, why do Firefox and Opera get all the press?” Could it be that, while Firefox and Opera have the clout of free-world capitalism behind them, Maxthon is the creation of one man, working mostly alone, in the warehouse of a company in China? (Really.) There are no PR people pushing Maxthon at CES. No advertising. No press kits.

Well, dear Maxthon brothers and sisters, I think that that Ron White has deserved to become a member of our beloved, well kept, devoted and tight-lipped fraternity. As to Ron’s question “If Maxthon is so smart, why do Firefox and Opera get all the press?”, the answer is quite simple. We are still a very small company (but we are growning..) and so far we haven’t invested any money on advertsing and PR people, but been focused on developing a great product. However, like Bob Dylan sang, “the times they are a-changing”…(in true cryptical spirit please pay attention to a few lines on the last verse..) so stay tuned for more exposure during 2006.

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