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Opera For Free, Thank You Google

“Thanks to Om Malik for hounding the folks at Opera and finally getting them to admit that they’ve signed a search referral deal with Google, similar to what Mozilla/Firefox has — which has been enormously profitable for the no-longer-non-profit Mozilla.”

“Well, little digging around, and hounding the Opera PR team, I found out that the decision to give away the browser came after the company stuck “compensation deals” with some of the search engines. Apparently, the premier tenant for browser’s built-in search window, is Google. “The current most important deal now is with Google,” company spokesperson Eskil Siversten wrote in an email. The company indicated that it has similar referral-for-dollars agreements with the likes of eBay and Amazon. Given that Opera is about one percent of the total browser market, it cannot be making as much money as Mozilla folks. “

Hail [TechDirt] for the pointing finger.

< sorry > Yey. Nathan already pointed to this on the InsideMicrosoft blog. I missed that one. < /sorry >

September 22nd, 2005 Posted by Coolz0r | General | 4 comments

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4 Comments »

  1. Methinks Coolz0r really missed seeing his name here while on vacation :-D

    Comment by Nathan Weinberg | September 22, 2005

  2. yeah. I felt nekkid without you blog :)

    Comment by Coolz0r | September 22, 2005

  3. And now the question as to how they could give away Opera for free was answered. My friend was trying to convince me Opera is better than Firefox, but in the end I convinced him that Firefox is better than Opera. lol. He saw all my extensions and cool stuff and was envious. My question for him was “How can they be free now?” I knew there had to be some reason, and there you have it. In the end the conversation ended with me saying I don’t mind if people use Opera as long as they don’t use IE.

    Comment by Jason | September 22, 2005

  4. […] Since Opera become a free software by the help of Google , it reaches One Million Downloads in Two Days. This bring a lot of attention on this piece of software. […]

    Pingback by Free As In Beer » Blog Archive » Portable Opera | September 24, 2005

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