Bharti Airtel introduces Google mobile search

Indian carrier Bharti Airtel, the nation's largest wireless operator, announced a strategic partnership with Google to deliver branded mobile search services to its Airtel Live Mobile-WAP portal. Google will also incorporate text advertisements into the service. Terms of the revenue-sharing agreement were not announced. "Mobile users outnumber PC users in India by a factor of six. The first computing experience for the majority of Indians in the next few years will be on a mobile phone," Bharti Airtel president Manoj Kohli said in a prepared statement. "With this service, the World Wide Web has literally converged into the handheld device enabling anytime, anywhere access to information and entertainment for Airtel customers."

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