Thursday, April 14, 2011

New Google News for Opera Mini

cross-posted from the Google News blog

While the Google News team has been hard at work redesigning our service for smartphones, we’ve also been thinking about our milllions of users around the world who access the web not from a smartphone, but from a feature phone, using Opera Mini as their browser.

So we have rolled out a redesigned Google News for Opera Mini in all 29 languages and 70 editions of Google News. This includes an enhanced homepage featuring richer snippets, thumbnail images, links to videos and section content without explicit navigation, a convenient search bar, comfortably spaced links and the ability to access your desktop personalization on your phone.

We hope that this will improve the news browsing experience for Opera Mini users around the world, including millions of people using a feature phone as the primary point of access for the web. See it here in the Indian Hindi and Nigerian English versions.

 


So, pick up your feature phone and point your Opera Mini browser to http://news.google.com to catch up on news anytime and anywhere. For more information or to share your feedback with us, please visit our Help Center.

Posted by Arun Prasath, Tech Lead and Dimitris Meretakis, Product Manager
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57 comments:

  1. Isiaka OluewuApril 14, 2011 at 12:47 PM

    I love GOOGLE

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  2. UnknownApril 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM

    seriously.. what other company bothers to optimize their products for competing browsers. Thumbs Up Google.

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  3. iRvanFauziEApril 14, 2011 at 1:21 PM

    can google detect my mobile device even i'm using Opera Mini browser?

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  4. harouApril 14, 2011 at 1:47 PM

    This is great! Opera mini is the only possible way for a lot of people and it is definitely good that Google is aware that :)

    Thank you

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  5. eknutzApril 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM

    Word.

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  6. Nothing and AllApril 14, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    Great news!

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  7. Gerry AdamsApril 14, 2011 at 6:52 PM

    I think I'll download Opera mini on my Droid X so I can try it. :)

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  8. JerrinApril 14, 2011 at 8:40 PM

    great work please do do for all your sites especially gmail on mobile and this is the correct move though i would love it if you also optimised for opera mobile

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  9. Dawid PająkApril 15, 2011 at 3:24 AM

    Good job Google! :) Now take care of your other services to work with Opera (Mini, Mobile and desktop too) as it should.

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  10. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 3:30 AM

    reat stuff! Way to go Google!

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  11. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 3:33 AM

    Great move. Thanks Google!

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  12. CricketApril 15, 2011 at 3:45 AM

    great work google. Go on.. :):-)

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  13. a_paddyApril 15, 2011 at 3:46 AM

    Thumbs up Google.
    However I'd like to echo the comments made about supporting Opera Mobile too.

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  14. Önder BakırtaşApril 15, 2011 at 3:48 AM

    Great job Google, Opera Mini deserves that.

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  15. GudduApril 15, 2011 at 3:59 AM

    thanx a lot!! this is great news for all mini users... please do similar optimization for reader on opera mini. right now, it is almost unusable... :-(

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  16. IdeApril 15, 2011 at 4:01 AM

    Finally some Opera support from Google!

    Please do the same for the rest of the Google and Opera products.

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  17. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 4:12 AM

    Great news! Opera and Google rules :)

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  18. AnonymousApril 15, 2011 at 4:14 AM

    Thanks, Google. :)

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  19. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 4:50 AM

    Amazing!!! Google News will be my first speed-dial cell from now on :)

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  20. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 4:58 AM

    amazing! thank u!

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  21. LewisApril 15, 2011 at 6:14 AM

    Thank you! I've been using the iphone version, which worked very well with opera mini, but this makes it easier! Thank you!

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  22. myblamageApril 15, 2011 at 6:30 AM

    Thanks for that! And now please optimize your desktop services (such as Picasaweb, Gmail, search !!!, etc.) for Opera as well.. Opera doesn't have so many users, but it is a good browser! Thanks!

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  23. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 6:33 AM

    :) Thanks google,i'm gonna enjoy reading google news with opera mini,totally awesome:)

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  24. antidefinitionistApril 15, 2011 at 6:45 AM

    Thumbs Up!!!

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  25. Hazel MarroquínApril 15, 2011 at 7:15 AM

    Great !!1! You're the hit Google, tnk you very much :D

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  26. PramodApril 15, 2011 at 7:21 AM

    Finally Google had to eat humble pie... but very interesting how it chooses to provide support for one service while purposely breaking others websites which work absolutely fine on opera if useragent is masked as firefox/IE...

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  27. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 7:59 AM

    <3 <3 GOOGLE <3 <3

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  28. VladimirApril 15, 2011 at 9:00 AM

    Круто :)

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  29. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 9:10 AM

    Thanks for the good work.

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  30. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM

    BTW... I am still waiting for Google to optimize Gmail and other services for the desktop opera.

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  31. Al'ExodusApril 15, 2011 at 9:21 AM

    Great news. Now, if only you would support other great standard-compliant Opera products...

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  32. WazzupApril 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM

    Nice one !

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  33. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 12:05 PM

    great job :-D

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  34. Esteban F. PérezApril 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM

    Great! adding a new speeddial on opera mini and mobile, googlenews is taking place now

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  35. ChiragApril 15, 2011 at 12:40 PM

    A step in the right direction :)
    But why doesn't google support Opera Desktop so much for anything?

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  36. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 1:04 PM

    Thanks so much for the gift!

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  37. Esteban F. PérezApril 15, 2011 at 1:20 PM

    ... -And by the way Google; Opera Mini is not only for feature phones, it is used by millions of millions of smartphone and tablet users around the globe.

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  38. Esteban F. PérezApril 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    and is running on TV, nintendo...... thousands of devices..

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  39. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    Many thanks! Google News is the type of service I'm more likely to use when away from a desk, so better mobile support is great.

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  40. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    Thumbs up!

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  41. survey2goApril 15, 2011 at 9:52 PM

    Thank you! I've been using the iphone
    version, which worked very well with
    opera mini, but this makes it easier!
    Thank you!

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  42. sandalianApril 16, 2011 at 7:29 AM

    Thanks, it's one of the best from Google to us Opera Mini users!

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  43. UnknownApril 16, 2011 at 12:05 PM

    Thanks a lot Google for this step.

    A user of the Desktop, Mobile and Mini version of Opera.

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  44. LewisApril 16, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    By the way, for anyone having trouble with G reader, try the iphone version at www.googlereader.com/i/ (?).

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  45. LewisApril 16, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    Sorry, that was www.google.com/reader/i/

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  46. LogicDaemonApril 17, 2011 at 12:28 PM

    Wonderful!
    Now if reader become better compatible, this would be even more wonderful!!

    FYI: Using google.com/reader/i/ with Opera Mini is neither convenient nor practical because click after reading an article causes page reload on server, and list loads with all articles closed (including that one which was read), so click hits unpredictable location. This is even more dangerous because accidentally several articles may be marked read without being read.

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  47. KamenskyApril 17, 2011 at 11:19 PM

    I, as an Opera user can friendly say 'Well done guys at Google!' I refer to the work you did on making Google news available to Opera-mini users. Keep the good work! Seeya on the net. Kamensky

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  48. altongustaApril 18, 2011 at 12:27 AM

    You're wasting your time. Since opera mini can render the desktop version of G.news, why should one switch to the poor content mobile version? At least one thing is commendable: you didn't make mobile redirection mandatory.

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  49. Randy CorporánApril 18, 2011 at 3:49 AM

    Hey, that's good, but I try to post a comment in a new with Opera in my Sony Ericsson w595, and I just see ''you need login on a account, please click on Account''. I try, I do the click, but the option sent me again back. Please verify, I'm from Dominican Republic

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  50. MikkoApril 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM

    Sounds good. Now do same to Reader! It's not usable currently. Gmail, which many have asked, works fine with separate java app.

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  51. Rhan CandiaApril 20, 2011 at 2:57 AM

    WOW. Google NEWS fits very well on Opera Mini 6!

    Who could have though READING NEWS ON MOBILE VIA OPERA MINI COULD BE FUN!?

    THUMBS UP FOR BOTH G and O!!

    G and O !! GO !!

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  52. UnknownApril 23, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    google & opera together
    =>THE POWER OF INTERNET<=

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  53. AnonymousApril 23, 2011 at 10:54 AM

    Really nice. Thanks Google!

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  54. UnknownApril 24, 2011 at 4:44 AM

    a lot of congratulations google, Its a Great news, Great job for world people. I always googles love.thanks google.

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  55. UnknownApril 24, 2011 at 1:11 PM

    Yeah that's it! We (opera fans) deserve it. Now somebody saw the (ghost of) opera.

    Thanks google. Welcome to the Opera!

    rmb.

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  56. UnknownApril 26, 2011 at 10:24 AM

    great,atlast a support from google for opera.i regularly use google services especially gnews.pls update all other be optimized for opera.i dont get the point google doesnt support opera desktop since its an excellent mix of features,performance,complaince to standards

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  57. AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    Opera Mini Browser its the best browser for any device, and easy to install the software.

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