Google's mobile division, based in London, is expected to drive the company's next growth phase as it focuses efforts on mobile phones, wireless laptops and personal digital assistants, reports the Times Online. Nikesh Arora, Google's VP of European operations, is quoted as saying mobile would become the driver of new business for the search company. It is apparently testing new search-related products to be used solely on mobile phones and other handhelds.

Google is also reorganizing how it presents search results to better work with mobiles, according to director of wireless products Deep Nishar. "You only have to look at the global trends for mobile use and PC use to see where our business is going," he is quoted as saying.

By yearend India will have more mobile phones than the U.S., and China has 3.6 million mobile-phone users but relatively few PC-owning households, according to Nishar.