SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- For the second year in a row Maxthon -- an Internet browser that has emerged from China to play a major role in global Internet communications -- is a top winner in the Webware 100 competition.
Editors at Cnet’s Webware.com evaluated 6,000 web sites, services and applications nominated by Internet users. From the 6,000 nominees, Webware’s editors selected 300 finalists. Earlier this year, the public began casting their votes for the best 100 products, 10 each in 10 categories.
The competition does not release the vote counts for individual winners, but Webware.com Editor Rafe Needleman said that Maxthon was among the top three vote-getters from all categories.
In 2008, Maxthon was the No. 1 overall vote-getter among the Webware 100 winners. Of the nearly two million votes cast, Maxthon received a fourth of them, far more than any other browser-or other software-that was among the nominees.
Jeff Chen, CEO of Maxthon, said, "We’re excited to get this award because it recognizes that Maxthon has been a leader in introducing new features that make browsing easier, faster, and more secure. We’re also pleased that so many people voted for Maxthon. The number of people all over the world using Maxthon is growing, mostly because of word-of-mouth because it’s simply a better browser."
This year Maxthon passed the 200 million mark for the number of people who have downloaded Maxthon.
In the Browsing category, other winners included Diigo, Firefox, Flock, Google Chrome, iGoogle, Internet Explorer 8, Opera. Safari, and XMarks.
Descriptions of all the winners may be found at http://www.webware.com/100 .
The latest version of Maxthon may be downloaded at http://www.maxthon.com .
