Comments on: Back to Google on Opera Mini and Opera Mobile

By: Aleksey

Aleksey — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:35:50 +0000

Sooo… Google has been Opera’s default search engine for quite some time… what about their other services working in Opera?

By: Andrey

Andrey — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:35:03 +0000

Joar: Google much better indexes Russian pages than Yahoo! and Google of course more popular. But Russians not often use Google for searching Russian sites. In Google Russians often search sites in English, but for searching Russian pages we use Russian search engines such as Yandex which specially adapted for Russian.

By: Steve Barker

Steve Barker — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:48:28 +0000

Not struck on the idea of Microsoft buying Yahoo, but the idea of Microsoft paying Opera royalties amuses me.

Please keep Yahoo on Speed Dail, and the Wii.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:40:38 +0000

Thank god for that. Yahoo search was dreadful, and I cursed every time I used it. Google greatness is back, phew…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:07:07 +0000

Thank you. Really. Does this mean the next Opera Desktop version will also switch back in the Speed Dial page?

By: Joar

Joar — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:13:14 +0000

An odd thing about the press release was that russia and the CIS countries were kept out of the new Google deal. Is really Yahoo more popular than Google in these countires (Opera would know, obviously, from the server usage in these countires). I remember some russians saying something about russian sites being better indexed in yahoo than in Google, but thought that was just a personl view from ths person…

Any russians care to comment?

By: Matt Cox

Matt Cox — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:12:37 +0000

Clusty ftw!

By: Adrian Lee

Adrian Lee — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:05:59 +0000

I did have something of a chuckle when I saw the press release about Opera Mini going back to Google this morning.

Glad you at least had the sense to acknowledge how it’s switched back and forth the last few years