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Opera Mobile dumps Yahoo for Google

By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
February 28, 2008
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Opera-Mobile-dumps-Yahoo-for-Google/0,130061733,339286364,00.htm

Opera has given Yahoo the boot and made Google the default search engine for its Opera Mobile and Opera Mini Web browsers designed for mobile devices.

Opera Mobile is getting Google as its default search option. Credit: Opera

In January 2007, Yahoo and Opera announced that Yahoo would be the default search engine on Opera Mobile and Mini. Now, however, the mobile versions are getting what the desktop version of Opera has had for seven years -- a built-in Google default.

Opera and Google "are extending this collaboration to give our users immediate access to the quality and convenience of Google's search results," Opera chief executive Jon von Tetzchner said in a statement.

Google search will be presented as an option on the browsers' start pages -- except in Russia and other former Soviet republics, Opera said.

Opera Mini can be downloaded for free on mobile phones, and Opera Mini users collectively browse 1.7 billion Web pages per month, the company said.