Mobile Phone Giants Plot Against Google

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Europe's biggest telecoms groups are aiming to create a mobile phone search engine that could challenge Yahoo! and Google, the US giants.

Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and one American network, Cingular, are among the companies that will come together for secret, high-level talks at the mobile industry's biggest annual trade show in Barcelona next week.

Declining call revenues are driving network operators together to compete against Google and Yahoo! search engines. Faced with declining revenues as calls become cheaper, network operators are determined to secure a large slice of the lucrative search advertising market.

Read more at the UK Telegraph