Comments on: Why I’m waiting for Yahoo’s new OneSearch to be the default search on Opera Mini

By: cap

cap — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:50:51 +0000

So you have tried OneSearch then, Mark G?

By: Mark G

Mark G — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:23:29 +0000

Unfortunaly, the results kicked out by the Yahoo engine are total rubbish compared to Google.

I have had to switch my start page in Opera Mini, and unlikely to ever bother updating it, as the Yahoo search engine sucks badly, in particular for regional searches.

An example, today I needed the phone number of my local motorcycle shop, called Anvil Motorcycles. I stuck that in, along with my town name, it appeared on PAGE 7 on Yahoo… Top of page 1 on Google…

PLEASE SWITCH BACK….

By: minisu

minisu — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:05:51 +0000

I guess I was wrong about the Yahoo Opera partnership. There might be more things than money involved — Onesearch is certainly going to benefit both companies.

By: DrLaunch

DrLaunch — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:35:41 +0000

I would give Yahoo a second chance if they offered onesearch for Opera Mini. But now I’m using my google bookmark because the yahoo search results don’t have the quality I want.
Actually I’m very interested in giving onesearch a chance. If only they could let me, a Sony Ericsson user from Norway use yahoo go.
Until then, I’m using google.
That’s yahoo’s loss.

By: Investor

Investor — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:21:31 +0000

Ops… and a smaller bill, of course

By: Investor

Investor — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:19:33 +0000

“…Opera will launch the new Yahoo! oneSearch™ when it goes live globally later in Q1 2007…”

Matter of days, and we’ll know… More relevant search results means less text input and scrolling. That’s good news for small screens.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:25:31 +0000

FINALLY- I’ve been asking throughout that initial thread on the mini blog about the difference from the Yahoo! search engine and the Yahoo! OneSearch search engine. The initial press release inidicated the move to OneSearch, but we’ve just been seeing the regular Yahoo! search in our Opera Mini’s….so I think that’s led to some confusion.

By: Bo

Bo — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:38:43 +0000

I use Opera Mini to have the Web in my pocket and not to have a special “mobile web” in my pocket. I use the default Yahoo-search sometimes because it’s the quickest way, but I don’t like the quality of results.

I’d love to have this configureable.

By: Øyvind Ø (at work)

Øyvind Ø (at work) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:48:24 +0000

I must say I really like it. Untill I get HSDPA on my phone (hopefully soon), I’m browsing without pictures anyway, and just open the pictures that interest me. The only thing annoying me is that it is hard to see what is the index page of a domain, and what is not. That bugs me a bit.

By: Joachim

Joachim — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:38:02 +0000

Does this work well for any countries outside the U.S? It seems to suck pretty bad for Oslo, Norway at least.

By: Turn.self.off

Turn.self.off — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:19:04 +0000

And one can also turn pictures off. All in all i kinda like the sound off what seems to be a almost context sensitive search. Its as if http://www.google.com would present a different default search service based on how you accessed it…

By: Genjinaro

Genjinaro — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:17:16 +0000

I just wish they’d move it alittle quicker. I hear it runs fine on the “quasi-exclusive” Y! Go 2.0.

Yahoo search as it is now isn’t bad but it isn’t Google and thank god it is better than “Live”.
For now I’m grateful Opera Mobile still holds Google.

I hope to see “Onesearch” soon.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:06:51 +0000

IceArdor, Opera Mini compresses the entire page including the photos to about 1/5 of the original size.

By: IceArdor

IceArdor — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:00:44 +0000

While OneSearch does show more relevant information, it also lists more pictures, and has a much longer page, as well as displays ads at the top. Personally, I think every kilobyte counts when browsing on the mobile.

As a default search engine, OneSearch probably is more likely to give more results that you’re interested in. Though I believe the best search site to do this job is Google Local. I would rather save that as a bookmark and search Google Local than use OneSearch, which is going to rack up my cellphone bill.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:34:38 +0000

joens, the integrated search (the one in the toolbar) will continue to stay Google. However, in the Speed Dial with Opera 9.2 the default will be Yahoo, you can easily change it to the search engine of your choice.