Quixey, a new search engine to help users find the best apps

New Delhi: Navigating among sea of apps — multiplying with each passing hour — on your smartphone or tablet is not an easy task. How about a search engine strictly to find apps that suit your needs? A California-based company called Quixey is now developing a search engine that can see inside apps to find what you need. "The way people interact with the third-party apps installed on their phones is broken," Liron Shapira, one of the co-founders of Quixey, was quoted as saying. "A search bar is the better way to use third party apps — and the Quixey vision is to put that search bar on every device," he added in a report published in MIT Technology Review. A prototype is already here that focuses on searching for places to eat and drink. When asked to find a particular kind of cuisine, it serves up the highest-rated places nearby from review apps. It can also show links to make reservations and check availability, the report added. IANS