Factoid that May Only Interest Me

look of surprise Google surprised itself and others this week when the search giant said it has seen 50 times more search requests from Apple’s iPhone than any other device.

“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times during this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The mobile search figures demonstrate a number of different points (from the most to least obvious): 1) the iPhone has developed a critical mass of users;

2) the iPhone’s touchscreen and built-in Wi-Fi capabilities make it a vastly superior device for mobile search. At least that’s my experience.

3) the mobile web and search markets are still in the toddler phase, which has allowed the iPhone to hold such a sizable lead over competitive devices.

4) boy that Steve Jobs sure is great. I’m kidding of course.

February 15, 2008 | Filed Under News Items and Commentary 

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One Response to “Factoid that May Only Interest Me”

  1. Brian on February 15th, 2008 9:22 pm

    Of course one of the things you are missing here is that the type of people who buy iPhones are the type of people to look at the next latest and greatest thing that comes along. That actually may be counter to your first point. It may mean that the mass of users that they have will be the first to jump to the next best thing when it comes along and Apple will have to build the base to other less techie types.

    Your other points are well taken.

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