Opera mobile browsers dump Yahoo for Google

[Gigacore]

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Opera has given Yahoo the boot and made Google the default search engine for its Opera Mobile and Opera Mini Web browsers designed for mobile devices.

In January 2007, Yahoo and Opera announced that Yahoo would be the default search engine on Opera Mobile and Mini. Now, though, the mobile versions are getting what the desktop version of Opera has had for seven years--a built-in Google default.

Opera and Google "are extending this collaboration to give our users immediate access to the quality and convenience of Google's search results," Opera Chief Executive Jon von Tetzchner said in a statement Wednesday.

Google search will be presented as an option on the browsers' start pages--except in Russia and other former Soviet republics, Opera said.

Opera Mini can be downloaded for free on mobile phones, and Opera Mini users collectively browse 1.7 billion Web pages per month, the Oslo, Norway-based company said.

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[Third Eye]

Thanks for the info.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

ya i like this move.. eac hand every time i have to manually change them...
yahoo search is really a SH!T... u wont get wht u want.. and result simply repeat themselves..

good move opera..

guys just one doubt .. how can opera run so many servers ??? for free ?? how is tha possible.. there isnta ny ad also .. except few links in the bookmark by default..

ok with wht version did they change this ???

 

[din]

Not sure how many use yahoo search engine, but I always use google. Mobile or PC or Laptop.

 

[The Conqueror]

the reason I dont like yahoo is that it does show only few releavant results or no results at all!
Google is simply the Best !

 

[int86]

ya i like this move.. eac hand every time i have to manually change them...
yahoo search is really a SH!T... u wont get wht u want.. and result simply repeat themselves..

good move opera..

Old is Gold,

 

[lywyre]

Hope the speed dial page in Windows version also gets Google search by default soon !

 

[blueshift]

Good move.

The reason I still didn't use Opera 4 is because it has Yahoo. search.

 

[Gigacore]

hope next version will have google

 

[Count Dracula]

Nobody can take google's place.Nice step by Opera anyways.

 

[anandk]

Thanx for the heads up !

 

[infra_red_dude]

guys just one doubt .. how can opera run so many servers ??? for free ?? how is tha possible.. there isnta ny ad also .. except few links in the bookmark by default..

Opera runs servers?? ???

How does Opera earn? Google pays Opera a lot! See the tie up? Mebbe Yahoo! refused to pay more so it went ahead with Google