17Jul/090
What is a browser?
What is a browser? I thought that was a straight forward question, with a simple answer. Wrong!
According to this cms watch article, most ordinary computer users define a browser as a search engine i.e. the result of the searches from a browser, not the tool itself.
There was no distinction between access to the internet and getting the search results. So a browser is Google, Yahoo or Ask not Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Chrome. The term browser has become a generic word to most users, meaning search results.