What’s Vivaldi’s business model?

christian

Thanks for this very informative blog post.
You guys are really doing a great job. Thanks for all the good work for that great browser you make.

First thing I did after reading it was changing my standard search engine.
May Vivaldi get rich now

Thank you! That's all we can ask for

JoelYoung

I've been using partner search engines for quite a while now. But now I'm going to start clicking the default bookmarks on a regular basis, even though they aren't something I use. But if it helps keep V on the road, I'm all for it. And besides, something in those bookmarks might end up being useful someday.

leethray

Would definitely love to see more and more way to support your guys!

christian

@leethray said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:

Would definitely love to see more and more way to support your guys!

Any suggestions? There are options like Patreon, Flattr and the PayPal button, but we have stayed away from those so far.

christian

@HealingCross said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:

I'm getting on with Ecosia very well and turn to big G only when I'm not satisfied. I haven't used Qwant for a while now, but I still think, it's another good option.

Qwant is worth a try. I know many using it as their daily search driver, mainly in Europe though. I've tried to live with all of them for a month or more and they are all worthy of being a Google replacement. Remember that the reason you feel Google is the best may be that they know you (too) well and can present you with search results based on all the data you have handed them over the years.

Catweazle

Google is undoubtedly the best search engine for results, so I use mainly Startpage because it uses the Google engine

christian

@Catweazle said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:

Google is undoubtedly the best search engine for results, so I use mainly Startpage because it uses the Google engine

I have to disagree on that one. I would agree 3 years ago but two of the ones we partner with now works better for me than Google does. I have been using one of those for two years now and do not miss Google results one bit.

danielson

@WildChild85 - it's a bit odd that start.me uses Google for you to search your bookmarks.

Chas4

@Gwen-Dragon Bing (Live Search was the name before that) never has been good for searching for content on Microsofts site from their own search engine.

Para-Noid

@leethray The best way is to use V and the default search partners. Promoting Vivaldi on social media and to use word of mouth. As long as you can get away with it tell your coworkers, family and friends about V. You might even show them Vivaldi on your personal laptop and or tablet.

Methods of promoting Vivaldi is limited only by your imagination.

danielson

@danielson - word just in from Start.me: "have now added both StartPage and DuckDuckGo to your search box and set the latter as a default engine."

napolitf

Great article to get the insights of how Vivaldi's team managed to create, maintain and upgrade this project. Must say I supported google at their very beginning, I liked the way they came into business with innovative ideas but also I helpless witnessed their transformation into the current private-data-predator company who betrayed much of their starting ideals so, when I found out about that old Opera's team launched Vivaldi, I didn't hesitate to start to get rid of google-based services starting obviously with Chrome. Now I can say I'm an almost google-free person (gmail being the sole exception, a huge one, I know) for several years. Regarding search engines, I use Ecosia as the main one, if I can't find what I'm looking for then duckduckgo is my secondary secondary one; if with them I can't find it either then, just then (rare), I type google.com in address bar and rent my soul to the devil for a few minutes.

Kudos to the developers team!

t0ken407

@catweazle: agreed, I've been using StartPage ever since the Snowden revelations, actually. Sometimes I'll use Google Images but other than that, it's all StartPage

DuckDuckGo is decent but uses Bing/Yahoo/etc as a backend, and the results aren't as good for my usage

Komposten

Interesting discussion about search engines. I've been using Ecosia since I first heard about it (via Vivaldi!), but occasionally switch of to Google still. There are two reasons for this:

Better search results for some topics. I could probably use another engine that is based on Google for this, so I'll have to try that.
Google's built-in "widgets". Things like currency conversions, unit conversions, plotting functions, quick weather check, etc. right in the search result pane. Other search engines I've tried doesn't have this (with the exception of Windows 10 search/Cortana, which I use for these things on my desktop).

Catweazle

I use not only Startpage, I also use the others in the list. Ecosia and DDG often have similar results when using both the same Bing engine. QWant is also interesting, offering some options that others do not have. But in general, at least for my use, SP is the one that best suits my needs in daily use .

Pesala

@Komposten Try DuckDuckGo:

Calculator

Currency Conversion

Catweazle

I use DDG in my Smartphone

Knuthf

@christian: I search in Google to see if others have searched for similar things - what others do. But when I need the correct answer and I know what I search for, just "where did I read it" - the old Kvasir search, I cannot use Google or Bing or even Yahoo: they all are biased. Quant gives me the answer. I could not care less about everything else - and I wonder who cares? Certainly not in business use!

Knuthf

Those of us that manage business should be better at ensuring that you can get paid. We need "something" and I see my responsibility. The DNS is a leap and we should consider "group" or "family" sharing. Just to be able to block MS and Google out, the other is to study who is in, and what the heck is going on. It is answers, and simple questions - why do they have to track? Here is an alternative - thanks!

juliansian

yes i did, i tell my friends to use vivaldi for their default browser. and after read this, i change my search engine to vivaldi's search engine partner