NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s biggest mobile carrier has announced that it has partnered with Google to provide their services on their Internet portal.

This is the second deal that Google signs with a Japanese carrier, the first one was with KDDI, Japan’s No. 2 mobile phone company , a couple of months ago.

DoCoMo and KDDI together control over 80 percent of Japan’s mobile market, so these deals will allow Google to gain lots of mobile search users.

Yahoo! is still Japan’s number 1 search engine, so Google can reverse the situation on the mobile search market.

KDDI and DoCoMo are both part of the Open Handset Alliance, the group behind Android, so that explains why they chose Google as their mobile search provider. The two companies will soon launch handsets running on this new mobile OS.

Source : Reuters.