Forbes reports that China Mobile and Google will be launching a mobile search service in 2007. The details are very fuzzy right now, all we know is that a China Mobile representative said something to the effect that they “begun developing their joint mobile search product for launch in 2007.”
This comes a week after Google partnered with Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom and surprisingly also after Google just said they wouldn’t be seeking local partners to grow market share in China.
Postscript January 4, 2006: Google posted the press release just today.