Mobile Browser Wars: Google Yanks Opera from Yahoo
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | February 28, 2008 | Share This
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Opera yesterday picked Google as its new search partner for its mobile browsers, giving the search engine a boost of about 130 million Opera users who browse 1.7 billion pages a month on their phones. The partnership will be effective on March 1 and applies to users outside the former USSR.
Google has been the default engine on Opera’s desktop browser for the last seven years. Yahoo, Opera’s old mobile partner, claims it is walking away willingly from its position as Opera’s default search engine, but it doesn’t make sense for Yahoo to give up 130 million users. Though Yahoo says that it and Opera continue to remain partners, with Opera users still able to access Yahoo’s mobile oneSearch from the browser, clearly being the default browser is the best position in a partnership like this.
Both Google have been working to close search deals with phone makers and mobile providers: Yahoo is the default engine for AT&T and recently bested Google in a fight for European T-Mobile, and Google will be in certain Nokia phones.
Topics: Google, Wireless & Mobile, Yahoo! |