China's Second Largest Mobile Network Drops Google Search Engine on Its Cellphones

The slow drip of the Google backlash has started, it seems. China Unicom, the country's second largest cellphone operator behind China Mobile, is to remove the search engine from its Android smartphones. The cellphone provider, which has suffered a 73% drop in profits, due to its customers' reluctance to use its 3G network, following massive investment in it, will leave the choice of search engines to handset manufacturers.

Earlier this week the network provider was forced to drop a brace of...