Google May Go Mobile In China

Google is in early talks to make Internet search capabilities available to Chinese mobile phone users. There have been two meetings between the CEOs of China Mobile and Google to discuss the possibility, according to a China Mobile spokeswoman. Google once dominated the Chinese search market, but has now alternate name it uses in the world. It also bowed to government pressure to censor search results, for which it has received quite a lot of flak. CEO Eric Schmidt has defended the decision, saying that the company has received no complaints about it from Chinese users. And he tried to downplay the monetary side of the deal, claiming, "China is important not for revenue, though more revenue is always good. China is important because a fifth of the world's population lives in China, and a large proportion of them will be Internet users." Google is also hard at work in several other countries. In Japan, for example, the operator KDDI is going to add a Google search box to its EZWeb mobile Internet service. And so the search engine giant's spread continues. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Doug is a staff writer for murdok for the latest eBusiness news.