Opera Mini to Include Google Search

Though Opera denies the rumors floating about that it is about to be acquired by Google (or is it Microsoft?), they have recently announced that they will be including Google search in Opera Mini. Google will also become the default search engine for Opera Mobile, the smartphone version of the Opera browser.

Opera Mini is essentially a free J2ME client that relies on a server in the network to preprocess webpages for rendering on small mobile screens. Its sort of an alternative to Opera Mobile that is less of a bandwidth and resource hog, and in theory should run on a large number of J2ME handsets already in use.

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