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EasySearch™ on Twitter Handles
Whenever you see a Twitter handle, you can EasySearch™ on it to like or retweet tweets or follow the person.

Search Bookmarks, Downloads, and History
We’ve made finding your pages super easy. You can also quickly access your Top Sites here.

Open in New Tab from EasySearch™ Results
Long press press on an EasySearch™ result to open it in a tab.

We’ve also improved the overall stability of kikin Browser, enjoy!

iPads, along with other tablet devices, have been revolutionizing the way we absorb information. If you don’t believe me, check out the following numbers provided by Journalism.org:

Tablet users fetch news approximately 20% more on tablet browsers than they do on apps. I will now give you a moment to tell me that this is not hardcore information…

Well if it didn’t touch your soft spot, then I may just know what might.

Most of you seem more drawn to, not only to news on tablets, but books as well!

Checking out these numbers here, you will see that 36% enjoy reading literature on tablets as opposed to 23% in print. What do you think this will mean for books in the future? One thing is for sure…

You can’t really get fast definitions on real ink printed books without the hassle of popping up your internet-enabled devices to look it up manually. Whereas on our kikin Browser you can get more information on literally everything! You are a long press away from doing and getting everything beneath your fingertips!
(Made possible with EasySearch™)

Look at what people are currently saying about our kikin browser for the iPad!

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it on your tablet browser. Tablet users have found it more intuitive to use browsers to get current news than using dedicated apps such as the NYTimes or CNN apps.

It seems that even after having an increasing market of iOS applications, “apps are for power [news] users” now, says Amy Gahran from Knight Digital Media Center. According to this article, where as 54% of tablet users email daily on their tablet, 67% browse the Internet on tablets every single day. For those of you in the other 33%…you are lacking my friends.

If you didn’t already know, enjoy fast information and learning with our “kikin Browser”. Simply long press on ANY word when you read off of your favorite news sites, and you can get instant results right from your iPad (soon to release on the iPhone). So what are you waiting for? Touch to learn!

I was invited to give a little talk about kikin at the How to Build Great Products: Insights October 2011 event at SoHo House in NYC.  Below is my talk!

A new version of kikin Browser is available!  Download kikin Browser today.

Download Manager
Save documents, images, PDFs and more on your iPad. 

Save Images
Now you can save images from EasySearch™.

Add Phone Numbers to Contacts
See a phone number?  Long press to add it to your contacts.

Find Text
Looking for specific text on the page?  Type it in the Omnibar and kikin will find it for you.

 

Top Sites is one of my favorite features in kikin Browser.  When you tap the home icon or open a new tab, you’ll see your Top Sites.

I was wondering what are the top sites of all top sites?  In other words, what are the 10 most popular sites people visit with kikin Browser?

* = store.Apple.com

How was this data calculated?

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At kikin, we respect the privacy of our users.  Users are anonymous, i.e. users’ identities are unknown to kikin and this post contains an analysis of aggregate data.
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Whenever a site is added to a person’s Top Sites, kikin will take a snapshot.  Our logs are updated every time this happens; I took a look at these logs and filtered them down so they only contained the domains.

After that, in Excel, I counted all the domains, ordered them, and found the top 10…

It’s amazing how these sites closely mirror the sites I visit too… especially when I use EasySearch™ (long press on any word or phrase to receive instant results).  I use Wikipedia and YouTube all the time.  I’m also surprised that store.Apple.com is in the top 10; the halo effect is strong!

Greg
@theschnaz