Can you imagine a life on the internet without Google? Even if you are a regular user of Apple, it is a reality that to a greater or lesser extent practically any Internet user in the world, and if we talk about Android devices, the absence of Google services seems almost unimaginable… however, Huawei has had to ignore this fact and has decided to launch it to the public petalyour new search engine.
Petal is Huawei’s response to the blockade that the United States imposed on the firm for considering it “a risk to national security”. A conflict that began when the Chinese company was accused of espionage: of obtaining user data and other confidential information from this and other countries and disclosing it to the Chinese government.
Despite the fact that these accusations have not been proven, an international boycott has been triggered that has led to serious repercussions for the company and among them, the most notable is that Google and Microsoft were forced to cut their business ties with Huawei.
In addition to the obvious business losses for the Chinese company, this abandonment by Google has left the company with the great task of trying to meet the needs of its users replacing all Google services on their mobiles.
Petal was created a while ago for that purpose: offer Huawei users a search engine with integrated app downloader, and what for any user of any mobile device can use it.
Petal can perform searches and filter them by various categories
The Petal app can be downloaded from Huawei Mobile Services, the company’s alternative to Google Play. Petal Search works just like the Google app does on our mobile: it can search in the same way as Google, or with its own search engine and bot called Petalbot that performs its own web index. Its system is based on using artificial intelligence and big data technologies to improve the user experience.
In addition to the application you can try Petal in your desktop browser on their website however you must bear in mind that the design is designed to provide the best experience from mobile devices.
petal too allows you to find results for different categories. The most prominent are applications, whose results show links to different stores such as APKMonk, Aptoide, Huawei App Gallery and others where you can Download the APK file to install on your mobile.
Your system also offers search results for images, videos, shopping, flights, hotels, music and morethat is, it has become a very specialized category search engine.
This platform even offers a news service very similar to since it is capable of displaying local or personalized news results based on users’ search preferences.
Google’s new direct competition?
Despite its complexity in results, the Petal application is extremely simple and intuitive since it only has three tabs including the configuration of the account settings.
As for the results, its design is shown in a very similar way to Google, with the headline, the meta description and the result page. Clicking on any result will open it in the browser in the same app.
Taking into account the haste of its launch and that Huawei has had to reindex the web, the results are spot on and you can search for pretty much anythingand of course, always oriented towards offering downloads of applications since it is the firm’s solution to try to help its users to obtain the necessary functions for their equipment.
With Petal, Huawei shows that although life without Google is difficult, it is not impossible and, who knows, maybe in the future it will become a direct competitor of the great company from Mountain View.
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