Opera Mini announced today that Google will now be its default mobile search engine. A Google search box will be present on top of Opera Mini Start Page. This deal will definitely help Google increase its mobile search market share. Opera said that most of its traffic is generated from the search function on its browser:
Every month, Opera Mini users browse more than 1.7 billion pages, with much of that traffic generated through the search function in the browser.
It’s funny to note that Google used to be Opera Mini’s default search engine, but was replaced by Yahoo! in January 2007.
1.7 billion pages every month? this is an impressive number. this deal will indeed definitely help google in its mobile search market share.
1.7 billion pages seems really good, but Opera Mini is a global leader so I have expected quite more. You know, we are a local provider of similar services in small country (Czech Republic) and do around 6 millions pages per month. It is about own portofilo of wap services, not search engine.