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T-Mobile dumps Google
T-MOBILE has decided to dump Google as its preferred search engine in 11 countries and will replace it with Yahoo.
The mobile operating has been using Google for ages and the move is seen as a coup for Yahoo which is having a trying time lately.
However in the area of mobile search Google does not have as much clout so a change like this from T-Mobile is a little easier to understand.
Yahoo will be looking after Onesearch on T-Mobile's Web n Walk service in 11 European countries. It will be installed by default.
Google is unlikely to be that bitter. It just did a fairly good deal with Nokia this week.
More in the Washington Post. µ
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This seems a little bit of an odd time to pull such a switch. The future of Yahoo is up in the air with all this talk of talk-overs. Unless they plan to use a contract with Yahoo as some sort of bargaining chip with Microsoft or Murdoch etc.