A third of British mobile users search on the loo

22 May 2009 16:55 GMT / By Duncan Geere

A survey by Yahoo! Mobile has revealed that nearly a third of British mobile users admit to searching on their handsets while on the toilet. More than a fifth browse the net at the dinner table, and 7% have hit the search engines during a wedding.

What are you all searching for? Well, men are looking for football results, with one in five doing so at a wedding and one in ten saying they searched for scores while in bed.

Women, on the other hand, search for lottery results and updates on reality TV. They're not as keen on searching between the sheets, though, with less than one in ten doing so.

Yahoo! funded the survey to publicise its oneSearch service, which aims to return more accurate results with fewer key presses - searching for "lottery" will give you the numbers immediately, for example. If you want to try it on your phone, then head to http://uk.m.yahoo.com.

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