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Top mobile searches: taxis, grub, gadgets

taxicab.jpgMobile search firm mobilePeople says the total number of mobile search queries increased tenfold during 2006. Meanwhile, around Christmas, the most popular category was taxis, followed by takeaways, restaurants, supermarkets and consumer electronics.

Other things in the Top 20 included banks, hotels, garage services, car parts, hairdressers, medical services, shoe shops, cinemas, furniture outlets, toy retailers, department stores, pubs and coffee shops.

I would've expected to see 'murdering the in-laws' in there over Christmas, but clearly we're a tolerant nation. More seriously, is nobody searching for filth using their mobiles? I thought the adult industry was supposed to drive all new developments in consumer technology anywhere...

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