Last week when Opera announced the availability of its Opera browser for free without any adds, everyone surprised thinking what made Opera to take a decision like this. They might have taken this decision to compete with growing Firefox, so that they can take the second slot after IE. But where the revenue is going to come from ?
The answer is from Google. Yes, Google is funding for Opera. It is not direct funding, but Opera signed a search referral deal with Google; that funds everything similar to what Mozilla is doing.
Does this sound like “indirectly Google is trying to help other browsers to compete with Microsoft IE” ? 🙂
Download Link: Opera Free Browser (already crossed more than a million downloads within 48 hrs).