"Rambler" has finally died

    On the last day of June , Rambler released the long-awaited toolbar, which, in theory, had to be released several years ago, when competitors did it - Yandex (Yandex.Bar) and Mail.Ru (Sputnik Mail.Ru ) )

    According to our sources, the real development of the Rambler toolbar began this year. An attempt to do something similar was made both in the past and the year before, but only now the thoughts and ideas of the developers have transformed into something tangible.

    The freshly baked Rambler-Assistant panel corresponds to the search capabilities of the portal, and allows you to search not only on the Internet, but also in the rating of Rambler's Top100, in news, illustrations, purchases, dictionaries and Internet file archives. In addition, the “Assistant” makes it possible to find and compare prices for goods of various categories of the Price.Ru directory , partially owned by Rambler Media.

    Being a part of Internet Explorer, the “Assistant” panel stores the last fifty search queries, and if desired, the user records the complete search history, and not only within the Rambler search engine. To switch to another search engine, it is not necessary to type a new query - just select the necessary search server in the “Assistant” settings, which is not very convenient when compared with other toolbars, where everything is much simpler.

    “Assistant” integrates automatically updated graphic elements - informers that reflect everyday financial, political, sports and other information. The Rambler Mass Media informer includes the headlines for the main news of the day and allows you to switch to viewing video messages, photo reports and press reviews. In addition, the “Assistant” provides weather information in more than 640 cities of Russia, the CIS, the Baltic countries, the USA and Europe.

    Another feature of the panel is the notification line. He reports on fresh emails, on the emergence of new "planetary" friends, on recent entries and comments in diaries, as well as on user comments on published photos.

    Another feature of the panel is an audio informer that connects the user to the air of leading Russian radio stations, broadcasting on the Internet. To listen to music on a computer running Windows, you do not need to install additional programs.

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