China Mobile, Google hold talks on mobile search engine – MarketWatch

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China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. said Thursday it is in talks with Google Inc. to launch an Internet search engine for mobile services in China.

China’s largest mobile carrier by subscribers is keen to explore mobile data services to offset declining revenue from the traditional voice services. Its average revenue per user in the first quarter fell to CNY86 from CNY92 in the fourth quarter last year.

“I recently met with Google’s CEO for the second time. And we both share the same idea: how to turn cell phones into a new kind of Internet search engine,” said China Mobile (Hong Kong) Chairman and Chief Executive Wang Jianzhou.