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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. Re:Unfair by mat1t · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When Microsoft do this though, they are cross-subsidising, as it doesn't cost them anything to include MSN search with IE.

    Google are paying Opera for this, so it becomes a business transaction. Also, Opera is a low market share browser, so it can't be considered anti-competitive. People can choose not to use/install it.

  2. Re:yup by Gnavpot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think people would be more familiar with the "web browser" term than the less accurate "internet browser" term.

    Actually, most people refer to IE as "the Internet".