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Opera Reaches 1 Million Downloads Thanks To Google

Posted by Zonk on from the product-placement dept.

auckland writes "More than one million people have downloaded the Opera browser in the days since Opera announced it was dropping the ad banner and going completely free. All made possible because Opera signed a search referral deal with Google." From the article: "'The current most important deal now is with Google,' the spokesperson said to Mr. Malik. That deal, and similar ones with Amazon and eBay, give those companies prime placement in the Opera search box. Mozilla has a similar arrangement with Google, with its search box and its default right-click menu search option on highlighted text sending queries straight to Mountain View."

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  1. Microsoft Says... by aklix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Opera free? Without ads? But Microsoft says companies can't survive like that!

    1. Re:Microsoft Says... by at_slashdot · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Opera free? Without ads? But Microsoft says companies can't survive like that!"

      Of course, that's why Microsoft started to distribute IE for free.

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    2. Re:Microsoft Says... by Snaller · · Score: 2, Funny

      Internet Explorer is without adds!

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  2. Re:yup by CSHARP123 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you search using MSN Search. The #2 result is STOP IE. You know even MSN search knows stopping IE is required. :)

  3. This is a terrible injustice! by badmicrophone · · Score: 5, Funny

    People should pay to see the Opera! after all, when you download it you miss all the fantastic costumes and corpulant players!

    when will the RIAA do something about this!?

    1. Re:This is a terrible injustice! by diogenes57 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Didn't you read the summary? It's because Opera is going ad-free. Finally I can enjoy some Puccini without the breaks. And I can see the costumes just fine, thank you.

  4. Useful by Col.+Bloodnok · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would anyone search for an 'internet browser' via their internet browser?

    Oh, AOL users.

    1. Re:Useful by Seraphim_72 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can beat that. At the school that I work at - we have a "Baasics of the Internet" that is a fully on-line class.

      Sera

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  5. Re:What? by mroch · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, Google is paying Opera to be the default search engine in the toolbar search. It doesn't make any sense for Google to pay Opera to list Opera higher in Google's rankings...

  6. Add one more to that by crkpot · · Score: 2, Funny

    1,000,001 - thanks google!

  7. Re:yup by KinkifyTheNation · · Score: 3, Funny

    a search for "internet explorer" has firefox on the first page

  8. Re:A thought on how this affects CSS designs by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's the great thing about standards... there's so many of them to choose from!

  9. Re:So what is their business model? by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 4, Funny
    > How exactly do they plan on making money now?

    Volume!

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  10. Re:Similar results: by kesuki · · Score: 3, Funny

    sexiest browser = fourm about opera
    sexiest internet browser = an aol music store
    sexiest web browser = article about cell phones
    sexiest webbrowser = a 'men's' magazine website

    so i guess the sexiest web browser is one that is reccomended my a mens magazine runs opera is a cell phone and has an aol music store built in ;)

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