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"Good news for all of you Google fans. We renewed our search deal with Google for another 2 years.

Google is the default search engine in the browser’s integrated search (on the top right corner of the browser).

Here’s a little tidbit for you guys and gals: Opera was the first to include a search field inside of the browser. In addition, Opera was also the first browser company to have such a deal with Google."