Google lands mobile search partnership with China Mobile

Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) pervasiveness in this day and age is unmistakable. In several conferences last year, I repeatedly heard CEO Eric Schmidt say that one of Google's top priorities is the mobile sector -- the cellphone screen to be blunt.

With that said, Google has scored a major hit. The world's leading Internet search engine has signed a deal with the world's largest mobile carrier -- China Mobile -- to have Google's mobile website featured prominently for China Mobile customers.

China Mobile -- with over 200 million paying customers -- will now have Google's mobile presence sitting on it as customers in that country use high-speed cellular handsets to do Internet-related tasks. Unlike here in the U.S., much of the Pacific Rim uses mobile technology for Internet access (instead of PCs), so this is quite the deal for Google.

If you haven't checked out Google's website for your mobile, point your handset's browser to www.google.com/xhtml and you can see what it looks like. Will Google reign supreme over the coming mobile Internet access explosion (that is already happening in some parts of the world)?