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Google has a lot of money (and more importantly, exposure) to push their browser forward and make ridiculously huge marketing campaigns. Opera does not.

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Opera's net income in 2008 was about $90 million. And that's from about half a billion dollars in revenue that year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software

Yes, Google is much bigger. But don't suggest Opera is poor.

That's not U.S. dollars, that's kroner. On December 31, 2008, that was $13 million on $71 million revenue (http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=NOK;to=USD ; change the date to get historical data).

Oops! Thanks for the correction.

As I said - "more importantly, exposure". Not that Opera is poor but they can't compete with Google's brand awareness.

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