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Opera Selects Google Search as its Go-To Guy

Google, the default search option on Opera’s desktop browser for seven years, has entered into a new mobile collaboration (Opera Mini) that covers all global territories except Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Opera Mini includes all of Opera’s standard mobile Web browsers.

Opera made Google its default search engine in Opera mobile Web browsers. Anyone operating Opera Mobile or Opera Mini can access Google directly from the browser start page to quickly and easily get information they need, whenever and wherever they need it.

Opera Mini’s success proves that mobile Web has been fully adopted by mainstream consumers. Opera Mini targets feature phones with limited browsing capabilities, prompting millions of people to download and install Opera Mini to their phones.

Opera Mini users browse more than 1.7 billion pages each month.

“Google and Opera have established a valuable relationship over the years and we look forward to continued collaboration on mobile products,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “With 2008 poised to be the year the mobile Web goes mainstream, Google and Opera are extending this collaboration to give our users immediate access to the quality and convenience of Google’s search results. We’re excited to extend this productive relationship and we hope that the nearly 100 million people using our mobile products will agree.”

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