Opera drops Yahoo! Plumps for Google

Author: web Add date: 04/12/2008 Publishing date: 04/12/2008 Hits: 0

Yahoo!'s (is that even correct punctuation?) woes continue. The search provider has been dropped by leading mobile browser company Opera and Google will be the default search engine for downloadable copies of Opera Mobile for all platforms as of March 1st. Google will also automatically appear as the front page search engine for all Opera Mini users as well. Opera's press release follows.
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"Google will also automatically appear as the front page search engine for all Opera Mini users as well."

Good stuff. Never did care for Yahoo!...

Finally...way to go Opera!

Yup, well done... Now how about an official Opera client for Nokia Internet Tablets?

About time, funny seeing that Opera mini 2 had google as the default search engine.

Very convenient! I had to manually type Google's URL every time.

Why didn't you simply put Google as Speed dial #1 instead of typing it each time ?

Arcade, I had a lot of other things on the speed dial.

or you could have added google as a search engine, by clicking in the search field and choosing "add as search engine".
You could have choosen it as a search eninge on the frontpage then. Works for any other search field on any other webpage aswell.

Also, isn't Opera the preinstalled browser on the tablets?

re: tablets. not in OS 2008. They've switched to a Firefox 3 based rendering engine charmingly known as microb.

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It always annoyed me that Opera 2 came with Y! instead of G. as the search engine.
Version 1 was pro-google. But since Opera v2 - no search in Cyrillics! The search result looked like a bunch of percent signs.
I will be glad to see G. come back.

Yahoo! you've used up my consumer credit of respect years ago, all by regularly crippling your mail and search with "improvements" that took away Cyrillic support. And your support was not supportive in that regard.
A merger might save you. I don't know... MS support and attention had been better.

I must add that best Yahoo's product was Yahoo Messenger (messenger.yahoo.com).
It really rocked. All its features always worked, on in any platform/firewall situation.
Omnipresent Unicode support, Mac-PC cross-platform video back in 2001.
Always-working file transfers, even between MacOS 9 and Windows.
It really rocked, compared to ICQ, AIM of those times.

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