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Sprint partners Google for wireless search

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PALO ALTO: Sprint PCS Group Monday said it had selected Google Inc. as the

default search provider for its wireless Internet service.

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The deal will make Google's popular search technology available to Sprint's

11.8 million wireless customers, enabling them to search about 1.3 billion

Internet pages from wireless devices like cell phones.

Both companies declined to discuss the financial terms of the deal, although

a Google spokesman said it was its largest wireless deal yet "by far."

Google, an award-winning search engine, has also recently announced deals with

Handspring Inc. and Vodafone Group Plc to provide wireless searches.

Google said that although the wireless search business does not currently

generate the same revenue as searches conducted over PCs, it sees a lot of

potential growth in wireless, and is encouraged by the popularity of wireless

Internet devices in Japan and in other international markets.

(C) Reuters Limited 2001.

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