Comments on: Opera renews search deal with Google

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:32:58 +0000

RichardStrong, you could easily remove the Google search field from the browser. Right-click on the GoogleSearch, and click on “Remove from toolbar.”

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by this being spyware. Opera sends nothing to Google, except when your doing a search (of course).

By: RichardStrong

RichardStrong — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:20:53 +0000

I don’t want to search form my browser. I want search turned off. I’m have a hard time finding out how to disable this. If I can not get rid of *** I will not use Opera.
At this point the built in search, which is the next worst thing next to spy ware, is all that keeps me from Opera. It is fast and I like it a lot. But sending everything I do to google is not an option.

By: Jaros18

Jaros18 — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:16:43 +0000

Wow, so really I think Opera rulez. I use Opera from 2 years and its cool. No problems, faster browser! Opera is (freeware) browser.. Have Fun with Opera.

By: Diego

Diego — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:41:22 +0000

I think is a good deal to Opera makes money.
But Opera should not erase the possibility to choose others, like yahoo, etc. I know that you can choose it tweaking conf files, but it would be great not to do so.

By: Freddie F

Freddie F — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:26:41 +0000

How about google toolbar for Opera, or at least equivalent functions – up a level, automatic search for google search terms in the page etc etc

By: Keram d'Nam

Keram d'Nam — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:51:16 +0000

Its so stupid to make it huge that Opera has this Google search and made another deal with GOOG.

It is more problem for noname Opera than for giant Google if Opera doesn’t have that search.

Opera is IN NO POSITION to “threat” Google, that
“hey if you don’t close a deal and pay us Opera, we will remove your search box from our browser( that has userbase like max 2% fa fa fa”..)
As people are used to search using Google, then if Opera would remove the Google search as a “punishment”, it would shoot then in its own leg, as people don’t want these days a browser anymore from which you cannot search Google…

So
I SUGGEST to GOOGLE CEO “in behalf of GOOG stockholders” THAT GOOGLE WILL NOT PAY FOR OPERA ANYMORE FOR THIS **** AND SAY FUKOF Opera – things have now changed and are as they are – we will not pay anymore – , because Opera is forced in its own interest (whether it gets payed or not) to include the Google search.

FFS I want bigger dividends from GOOG.

You people there in West should learn capitalism isntead acting like commies…
Google pays for **** he would actually get for free (and there is no shadow of doubt about it).

By: Hmm

Hmm — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:39:00 +0000

There’s a special “opera” part of the string when you search from Opera, like there’s a similar string for Mozilla. I doubt that Opera makes money if you remove it.

By: SuitCase

SuitCase — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:16:27 +0000

Is anyone aware of how Google’s deal with Opera actually works on a technical level? I have modified my search.ini to add Google Australia, and to clean up some of the extra parameters in my searches, including the one flagging Opera. Do Google record simply every Opera visitor based on the UA string and credit Opera Software for that, or only when the switch is present in the URL you access?

By: Dava

Dava — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:39:02 +0000

“Opera was the first to include a search field inside of the browser, and Opera was the first browser company to have such a deal with Google”

More recognition of Opera’s innovation in the browser field. Top stuff!

Dava

By: EC

EC — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:15:46 +0000

Mika,

what I was trying to say is that Opera has all of the innovation of a good software company, let alone a browser – yet, they still have yet to make it big. They impact the community, yet they fail to gain more than less than a small percentage of the browsing community.

What is it that holds them back? What is the reason that they are the Apple of the browsing industry – not a bad company, good at creativity and possessing a good sense of what is lacking in today’s computing world, yet unable to be what and where they want to be.

I think that they need more marketing – which I happen to believe they might have started, as I see more and more ads for Opera in magazines and the like. But, they should really have more recognition than they do – and I don’t know why they don’t!

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:08:45 +0000

What we really need is a “live” search field with suggestions, like in Firefox. And for the love of god, a way to recall a list of recent searches, which is the most basic thing in the world.

By: Mika

Mika — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:36:20 +0000

LOL. The above was supposed to be:

Who cares what Asa thinks?

By: Mika

Mika — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:35:11 +0000

I don’t know what EC’s problem is…

Who cares what ***-a thinks? InternetWorks had tabs before anyone else, but Opera actually had MDI without the tabs first, or at least one of the first, ages before anyone even considered adding tabs.

Whatever the “Apple-worm” is, clearly EC has something he is trying to say, but he doesn’t seem to want to say it in plain text. Instead, he insinuates?

By: kyleabaker

kyleabaker — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:39:50 +0000

I only use the keyowrd search. I don’t find it as accessable to search in the search field (mainly because I don’t know the keyboard shortcut that focuses the search field and i’m too lazy to search for it, haha). I just press F8 followed by “g search terms here” all the time. Infact, I don’t think I’ve actually gone to google and searched using their webbased form in almost a year now, hehe. Hopefully google will begin supporting Opera more in the future tho. Nice bit of info about Opera being the first to include such a search feature.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:05:24 +0000

I tend to use both. When I am doing a search and know exactly what I’m looking for, I use the keyword search. I use the search field for when I have to paste something in from another program to go and search for. I sometimes just use one or the other on a pure whim though.