Didn't Opera have 'omnibox'-like features already way earlier than 2008? At least I've been using it for over a decade and it seems like ages ago I ever visited

Didn't Opera have 'omnibox'-like features already way earlier than 2008? At least I've been using it for over a decade and it seems like ages ago I ever visited a search page directly instead of searching via the address bar. The only time I'd do it now is to get the correct url to enter in Opera's 'Manage Search Engines' dialog.