Faxo Help

Fast Access
Faxo Search
Custom Home Page
Site Pervasive Theming
Realtime Style Control
Images/Themes
Videos
Web Page Thumbnails
Topics/Open Directory
Localization
Games
News
This is just the beginning

1 - Fast Access

Faxo offers a novel way for fast navigation through hierarchal information as well as a proprietary mechanism for compressed delivery of web pages to offer the fastest possible web experience and response times. Alexa rates us faster than 95% of all websites.

2 - Faxo Search

Faxo offers search through our index as well as meta-search through the most popular search engines to offer access to the largest combined search results on the planet. Users can toggle between different search engines or types of search with the click of a button. User can search for web pages, images (users can select themes via image search as well), videos, news, local information, facts (via wikipedia), music, patents, books, blogs, topics and games. Moreover the search box provides topic specific autocompletion. Initially Faxo web page results are from the open directory. Our multi-billion page index will be available shortly

3 - Custom Home Page

Faxo offers the most popular widgets on the home page so users can rapidly get the latest news, popular searches, weather, date/time, images/themes, games, videos, horoscope, calculator, and calendar as well as customize the widget location and availability

4 - Site Pervasive Theming/Style

Users can customize their experience on Faxo by selecting a theme/style for Faxo site-wide and full page in addition to the initial homepage or they can just use the default styles for the day. Moreover themes can be shared via a link embedding mechanism where users can provide their customized versions of Faxo to the world. Finally users can toggle between the embedded (via link) version of Faxo in addition to their own and default versions. All this explained in the "my style" section on the upper left corner of the page.

5 - Realtime Style Controls

Faxo provides a revolutionary new experience where users can manipulate the style of Faxo in realtime via controls on the page (much like tv controls). Black on White/ White on Black text, variable opacity/contrast of background wallpaper, background tiling, Toolbar toggle, and selection between various themes (Faxo default, My theme, Link theme). When switching between themes or styles users can rapidly adjust the aesthetics of the page to suit their particular needs.

6 - Images/Themes

Faxo provides 1000s of images and themes to choose from in addition to users being able to provide their own links to set their style. Moreover users can select a theme/image from any image search result by clicking on the palette icon next to any image

7 - Videos

Faxo provides fast access to the world's most popular videos.

8 - Web Page Thumbnails

All web page results come with a thumbnail preview of the respective web page. This includes previews for open directory pages as well as search results.

9 - Topics/Open Directory

Browse and search the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web with over 4 billion web pages and almost 600,000 categories.

10 - Localization

Users can customize their experience to their location for information such as weather forecasts and local search.

11 - Games

Faxo hosts one of the largest game repositories on the Internet with ultra-fast game selection through dozens of categories along with custom skins to personalize your gaming experience.

12 - News

Faxo provides news snippets from the most popular news sources along with rapid navigation through various news categories. Moroever, there is a customizable widget on the homepage which allows you to flip through current news while retaining your settings.

13 - This is just the beginning

Stay tuned.