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		mbrubeck on Feb 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mobile Operators Announce Commitment to Firefox OS Don't be so sure. Google is also one of Opera's biggest clients, paying a significant sum to Opera for search traffic from their desktop browser, despite its much smaller desktop market share: http://www.zdnet.com/opera-google-extend-search-deal-for-two... Opera makes about $15M per quarter in revenue from its desktop browser: http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-software-q2-2012-financial-r...

zobzu on Feb 25, 2013 [–]

ok maybe instead of 5% i should have said "an insignificant market share" (5% is still pretty big)

Even Opera's marketshare is significant.

But just imagine, for a second, that 20% of the internet just gets to use bing instead of google.com because it became the default overnight. Outch.

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