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Feel free with Opera

Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:03:49 AM

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I was visiting the Opera homepage today, just a mere routine. And there it was:

Opera is free!!!
I cannot believe that I predicted this, and just a few days ago. You can see in the picture on the right the homepage that I saw today. I guess that eventually this page will get incorporated into their traditional homepage, so I wanted to take a snapshot of the event.


No ads.
Better browsing.
Opera removes ad banner and licensing fee.


Opera should stop being just a browser. They have this wonderful product, they have this splendid community, they have a portal, they have web search. If they just get all this a little bit farther, they might get positioned a little bit further. It is always nice for customers to see how competition fosters innovation. Today I see the birth of a new company getting into the realm of Yahoo!, AOL, MSN and Google. I don't know if in the end they are aiming at something like this but it'll be great if they do. And if this dream becomes true and they come anywhere near those big ones, note that Opera will be the only one from outside the US.

Definitely dropping BloggerHurricanes and NASA

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