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Google Default Search For Opera Mobile

Posted by Zonk on from the goopera dept.

sayanchak writes "Reuters reports that Opera Software has agreed that Google will be the default partner for its mobile Internet browsers. Google will be the default search partner for the mobile browsers, Opera Mobile and Opera Mini." From the article: "Oslo-based Opera Software is a tiny competitor of Microsoft in the Internet browser market, but the fast-growing part of its business is in browsers for mobile phones and other mobile electronic devices."

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  1. Re:Web translates badly to mobile devices... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Informative
    The really great mobile applications won't come around until industry stops trying to cram PC oriented web pages at pocket devices.
    Dude: look at how cleverly industry sold laptops with just a slightly bigger screen every year throughout the 90's, then went towards a wider, less-square form factor (driven by Apple?) post 2000.
    There will be no end-point, "really great mobile applications". Closure is as anti-sales as giving people the source code: WTF the coercion?
    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. Re:Firefox? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Isn't it the same with Firefox? Except, well, Google didn't have to pay for it.

    You're kidding, right? One of the main reasons for the search bar in Firefox is the money that Mozilla's partners (e.g Google) pay to be convieniently and visibly embedded in your UI. Our eyeballs pay Mozilla's wage bill.

    (For the more defensive types out there, note that this isn't a negative criticism).

  3. Re:Firefox? by Baricom · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mozilla Corporation gets a cut every time you click on an ad from a Google search.

  4. Re:Typical... by Tylerious · · Score: 2, Informative

    Agreed, Opera should be compared to something like Firefox than IE.

    In my experience on a 266 Mhz Slackware box, Opera has operated way faster than Firefox. And all the extensions (like session saver) I use on Firefox are built-in anyways. Unlike the Mozilla Firefox was forked from, it doesn't seem to bloat the software. I completely understand why Opera is becoming such a leader in mobile internet browsing.

    I haven't yet tried Firefox 1.5, so I won't comment on it's speed, but it needs quite a boost to catch up to Opera. Speed isn't really noticible on faster computers (Firefox and Opera seem about the same on my 2.2 Ghz Windows box); you really notice it on older hardware.

    Sorry that's not really on original topic, but is at least replying to the previous post.

  5. NetFront? by linj · · Score: 2, Informative

    NetFront 3.2, as of now, is the incumbent ruling web browser for Windows Pocket PCs, excluding IE Mobile (Opera Mobile is still in beta/alpha/unreleased stage).

    It, too, uses Google as the default search. Really, what *would* they use... MSN search?