Quickbrowse in the Press:

"No more typing in URLs. No more bookmarks."
Wall Street Journal, USA

"Ingenious"
Yahoo! Internet Life, USA

"Specific to you, as a person"
ZDTV, Surf Guru [Video]

"Quickbrowse.com might be right up there with the light bulb."
Jim Regan
Christian Science Monitor,

"[...] something that is actually useful. [...] Quickbrowse is good acquisition bait."
Alex Gove
Red Herring, USA

"Highly recommended"
Canandian Social Research Links
Canada

"Quickbrowse means navigating faster."
ibrujula.com
Spain

"Time saver"
Detroit Free Press
USA

"A great solution"
El Mundo
Spain

"Worth it"
Richclickings.com
USA

"Eliminates superfluous results"
Yahoo.com France

"Probably the most convenient and fastest way to surf the web."
Brian Kim
The Johns Hopkins University Newsletter, USA

"Very easy to use."
El Comercio
El Comercio, Lima, Peru

"...start using Quickbrowse."
Mark Frauenfelder
Playboy Magazine, USA

"A real treat for media lovers."
Eddie Lennon
Business & Finance, Ireland.

"Simple but ingenious."
Dirk Engelhardt
Berliner Zeitung, Germany.

"A cool application."
Briefme.com, USA.

"A neat new site."
Richard Longhurst
Daily Telegraph, UK

"Quickbrowse is definitely worth a look."
Chris Sherman
About.com, USA

a [...] "very useful site"
Tony Waltham
Bangkok Post, Thailand

"As easy to use as a Web-based email account such as Hotmail."
Michael Cunningham
Irish Times, Irland

"The most fantastic personalized website around."
Charles Foster
Sunday Tribune, Ireland

"Everybody praises Quickbrowse."
Michael Lenz
Eurogay.de, Germany

"Use Quickbrowse as your portal"
Andrew Tobias
AndrewTobias.com, USA

"It's a time saver."
Jeff Porter
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, USA

"A great idea."
Paul Gilster
News & Observer, Raleigh, NC, USA

"A killer service that's hard to beat."
Chris Pirillo
Lockergnome.com, USA

"Saving an awful lot of time."
Weekly Bookmarkz, USA

"Highly useful. Unlike anything we've ever seen."
TheFreeSite.com, USA

"Everybody praises Quickbrowse."
Michael Lenz
Eurogay.de, Germany

"Saves much time."
LaVanguardia, Barcelona, Spain

"Bohnett is pushing Fest to act fast because Quickbrowse now has competitors in what is becoming known as the field of  'metabrowsers'.''
Miami Herald

"The term 'Metabrowser' is beginning to catch on for this product."
Neue Zuericher Zeitung

"Fest has developed a new way to move around for surfers tired of clicking. Called 'metabrowsing', it has caused a furor in the USA and has already found imitators."
Berliner Morgenpost

"Metabrowsers let surfers select whatever content they want from anywhere on the Web and gather it all on one site. [...] Quickbrowse is the simplest of the bunch."
Industry Standard

"Metabrowsing is changing the way we view the web. [...] Quickbrowse's metabrowsing offering is probably the easiest to grasp and therefore has a high chance of public acceptance."
Traffick.com

"So how exactly did Fest transform Quickbrowse from a simple program into a promising enterprise, inventing a new category of web tool dabbed the 'metabrowser' in the process?"
The Advocate

"Hot surfing idea began as a beach escape. [...] In addition to Quickbrowse.com, at least a half-dozen other companies are offering metabrowsing services, with varying degrees of customizability."
The Sun Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale

"Don't just browse the web - metabrowse!"
CNN

Metabrowsing stitches together information from multiple Web sites and presents it as one source. [...] A great example is Quickbrowse. [...] Like many great ideas it started at the beach.
Netsurfer.com

A powerful metabrowser.
The Independent
England


Marc trying to write Quickbrowse code at his favorite place: the beach.
(click here for higher resolution version for print reproduction)

On "Metabrowsing"

One interesting thing in the history of Quickbrowse is how reviewers, once Quickbrowse had found imitators, coined a new term for what Quickbrowse invented: Metabrowsing. To my knowledge, the first journalist to use this term was Cory Kleinschmidt of Traffick.com, in a review of Quickbrowse and the other, related services that started mushrooming roughly one year after Quickbrowse had made its debut. The review ran on February 14, 2000. Its headline read: "Metabrowsing changes the way we view the web."

Ever since more and more journalists and industry analysts are using this handy term. I find it interesting to watch the birth of a word and see it spread. So what does metabrowsing mean? The common denominator seems to be that it applies to any kind of "service or tool that enables a user to view more than just a single web page at a time inside a continuously scrollable display unit."

Dr. Linda Gordon, Liberal Arts Professor at Nova Southeastern University says: "Metabrowsing is transforming our understanding of the web, therefore, the vocabulary of this new perspective must demonstrate the nature of the metamorphosis. The etymological root 'meta', from the Greek, means 'change' and 'transcendance', and thus we can understand the dynamics of metabrowsing as a view of the web from a higher level. What is this higher level? To speak metaphorically, think of the limitations of street signs for navigation: metabrowsing will become the GPS of the internet."

Below you can find a list of publications that have been referring to "metabrowsing" so far:

Industry Standard
"Metabrowsers let surfers select whatever content they want from anywhere on the Web and gather it all on one site. [...] Quickbrowse is the simplest of the bunch."
read full story

CNN
"Don't just browse the Web - metabrowse!"
read full story

Traffick.com
"Metabrowsing is changing the way we view the web. [...] Quickbrowse's metabrowsing offering is probably the easiest to grasp and therefore has a high chance of public acceptance."
read full story

New Zealand Herald
"First it was metasearching. [...] Now it is metabrowsing. [It's] the brainchild of freelance journalist Marc Fest."
read full story

Miami Herald
"Bohnett is pushing Fest to act fast because Quickbrowse now has competitors in what is becoming known as the field of 'metabrowsers'.''
read full story

Neue Zuericher Zeitung
"The term 'Metabrowser' is beginning to catch on for this product."
read full story

Berliner Morgenpost
Fest has developed a new way to move around for surfers tired of clicking. Called 'metabrowsing', it has caused a furor in the USA and has already found imitators.
read full story

The Advocate
"So how exactly did Fest transform Quickbrowse from a simple program into a promising enterprise, inventing a new category of web tool dabbed the 'metabrowser' in the process?"
read full story

The Sun Sentinel
"Hot surfing idea began as a beach escape. [...] In addition to Quickbrowse.com, at least a half-dozen other companies are offering metabrowsing services, with varying degrees of customizability."
read full story

Netsurfer.com
Metabrowsing stitches together information from multiple Web sites and presents it as one source. [...] A great example is Quickbrowse. [...] Like many great ideas it started at the beach.
read full story

The Independent (UK)
A powerful metabrowser.
read full story

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Read the story of how the new category of metabrowsing was started when fledgling freelance writer Marc Fest tried finding a way to spend more time at the beach ;-)

Marc Fest
Email: marc@quickbrowse.com
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