iPhone generates 50x more mobile searches

Google released statistics at an industry conference on Wednesday that were so shocking they "made [their] engineers check the logs again." Google is seeing fifty times more searches coming from the iPhone than any other mobile device.

Well, I guess it's not all that shocking if you consider the craptastic "Web browsers" on most mobile phones. But just think about the magnitude of this number, and you can begin to see the future (and see why Microsoft is scared enough to make a play for Yahoo.) Money quote:

Should other companies follow in Apple's footsteps by making web access commonplace on their mobile handsets, [head of Google mobile operations] Gundotra believes the number of mobile searches could outpace fixed internet search "within the next several years."
— Via AppleInsider

Disclaimer: I use Google a lot on my iPhone. And, yes, I own Apple stock.