Russian Domains & Opera

[Lokai]

I think I was inspired to look into Russian domains because of the long thread from the guy from Russia.

Someone answered a question that I wondered.

Where was the traffic coming from.

Opera browser.

It takes the users to the dot com.
This was really amazing me using my version of Opera & seeing it myself.
I put in a Russian keyword & it went to the IDN domain with the dot com.

Then I read a post on Techcrunch about the new version of Opera 10.5
I downloaded it tried one of the Russian keywords again.

IT WENT TO GOOGLE!!!!!

:mad:

What's gonna happen? I didn't even get a chance to register one yet.

[phio]

I think I was inspired to look into Russian domains because of the long thread from the guy from Russia.

Someone answered a question that I wondered.

Where was the traffic coming from.

Opera browser.

It takes the users to the dot com.
This was really amazing me using my version of Opera & seeing it myself.
I put in a Russian keyword & it went to the IDN domain with the dot com.

Then I read a post on Techcrunch about the new version of Opera 10.5
I downloaded it tried one of the Russian keywords again.

IT WENT TO GOOGLE!!!!!

:mad:

What's gonna happen? I didn't even get a chance to register one yet.


I've noticed an increase of traffic from google over the last several weeks with my Russian IDNs.

Whatever is going on it is a good thing, so go ahead and take the plunge! Just don't take any of the ones on my reg list please. :)

*I was attributing the increase in traffic to the google button on the bottom of the Yandex.ru search screen.

ie http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8+&lr=84

but it may also be because google is giving a little more credence to the IDN domain name url.

When Yandex and Rambler start to do this, well it's going to be interesting to say the least.

[Drewbert]

Then I read a post on Techcrunch about the new version of Opera 10.5
I downloaded it tried one of the Russian keywords again.

IT WENT TO GOOGLE!!!!!



Gaaaa.

Opera's done a deal with Google just like Mozilla?

Jesus wept.

[Drewbert]

I just tried 10.10 on the Mac and it added .com to the end.

Is there a setting somewhere in the preferences on the Windows version?

[phio]

Gaaaa.

Opera's done a deal with Google just like Mozilla?

Jesus wept.

Well something is up

google.com/search?client=opera.......

[thefabfive]

It's a bug.

Google already has:

1) the search bar

2) using "g keyword" in the address bar

Now they've temporarily hijacked the whole address bar :eek:
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[Drewbert]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/opera_ten_dot_five_final/

Let's hope the version that ultimately gets downloaded via the browser ballot has the bug fixed!

[Lokai]

It is version 10.5
It's downloadable from the Opera web site.
It didn't update via auto-update I had to download it.
It looks like a permanent feature.
I'm not sure if 10.5 is out for a Mac but this looked like the stable version for Windows.

Others can try.

[blastfromthepast]

Screenshots of the experience:

http://my.opera.com/Zentarien/blog/wow-at-opera-10-50-new-features

When you type anything into the URL Bar it will search both your browsing history and bookmarks and filters them both out to 2 separate categories.

[thefabfive]

It's not a permanent feature. It's a bug. 10.50 was rushed to release with quite a few bugs still present.
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[blastfromthepast]

How do you know it is a bug, if they have made a big deal out of this new feature?

[thefabfive]

Check out Settings -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Server Name Completion

[Explorer]

This is very disturbing if not fixed.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=375881&abc=&page=1&skip=0&show=&perscreen=50

[Drewbert]

Short term thinking by someone at Opera. Get paid by Google, but in the end all your customers will be using Chrome.

EPIC FAIL.

[bwhhisc]

On March 4th (for the last 4 days) my Russian traffic seems to have came back to about normal levels.

[blastfromthepast]

Time to redirect traffic to http://www.apple.com/ru/safari/download/

[jose]

I have moved away from Opera since Opera Unite.

[blastfromthepast]

I have moved away from Opera since Opera Unite.

I thought you might have supported that, seeing as it is a take off the "workers of the world unite" slogan.

Nevertheless, the fact that you moved away from it, has no bearing on this issue.

[jose]

I thought you might have supported that, seeing as it is a take off the "workers of the world unite" slogan.

Nevertheless, the fact that you moved away from it, has no bearing on this issue.

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[blastfromthepast]

Stop promoting your facebook fanclub and stay focused. This is an important topic for those that have Russian domains. Not sure if you do.

[jose]

Stop promoting your facebook fanclub and stay focused. This is an important topic for those that have Russian domains. Not sure if you do.
:D

[Drewbert]

Looks like you could use a diet too.

And get out in the sun for a bit.

[jose]

Looks like you could use a diet too.

And get out in the sun for a bit.

:lol: