T-Mobile USA Makes Yahoo its Default Mobile Search Partner

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T-Mobile USA Makes Yahoo its Default Mobile Search Partner

7:09 pm on November 20, 2008 | Category: Business, Web Services, Cell Phones

Internet giant, Yahoo, has reached a deal to become the default search engine on new mobile devices from T-Mobile USA.

Yahoo said that it will share ad revenue with T-Mobile, but did not give financial specifics of the deal, which is aimed primarily at users of lower-end mobile phones. Yahoo has already replaced Google as T-Mobile International’s mobile search partner in a number of European markets.

The deal with Yahoo will not affect T-Mobile’s contract to sell the G1 smartphone, which comes equipped with Google’s Android operating system, and of course, Google Search functionality.