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Google iPhone usage shocks search giant

appleinsider.com — Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.

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  • mdfrancois, on 02/15/2008, -16/+504Google has a search engine?
  • wowmacnut, on 02/15/2008, -29/+487Apple makes a phone?
  • TypeEE, on 02/15/2008, -11/+200Probably iPhone is the only mobile phone that people browse with it. I have tried windows mobile and browsing is a challenge. iPhone is so far ahead.
  • newbill123, on 02/15/2008, -6/+136Why are you asking digg? Ask Jeeves, I'm sure he'd know.
  • SRSco, on 02/15/2008, -40/+155Wow, so statistics suggest that people with a Google button on their phone use Google more than people without one? Inconceivable!
  • sporg, on 02/15/2008, -4/+90All those searches are from kids cheating on college exams.
  • jdh24, on 02/15/2008, -5/+89You've had an extremely lame year.
  • Aleman360, on 02/15/2008, -5/+65Browsing is a pain in the ass on regular cell phones and the iPhone browser is way better than the Windows Mobile browser. I am suprised it beat out Blackberry's by so much though.
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  • Rikkochet, on 02/15/2008, -14/+64Yeah, apparently it plays music and stuff too. And has a touch screen or something. They called it the iPod Talk or something like that.
  • joel8x, on 02/15/2008, -1/+49I just switched to an iPhone from a Treo, and I have to say that I rarely used the Treo's browser because it sucked so much. It was a PITA to find content on any modern website because they wouldn't draw properly. Safari on the iPhone is so usable that I find myself using it all day for quick pieces of info. And the lack of a proper GPS is really a non-issue. I used to have the TomTom software on my Treo with a bluetooth GPS unit - it was horrible because as soon as I got a phone call my GPS was useless. The google maps on the iPhone is very useful for finding stores and POI though.
  • terminal157, on 02/15/2008, -1/+41That story was needlessly detailed and boring.
  • huggybarrel, on 02/15/2008, -3/+33I know! It's almost like when a company makes their browser the default on their operating system, it gets used more than other browsers. Strange how that works.
  • drlha, on 02/15/2008, -0/+30I'm not, the Blackberry's web browser is a piece of *****. I had to install Opera Mini on my workmate's Blackberry so they could log into our extremely simple HTML work collaborative website (its the most basic HTML going, I know I wrote it). Blackberry is all about email, the web is a low priority on it IMHO.
  • PurgueFlantar, on 02/15/2008, -4/+29What good would a Touch do in Goodwill? You gonna pick up a wireless access point in there? So she's gonna spend $400 on a device so that she can make $10 reselling a book on Amazon? Wow that's just full of ridicularity.
  • crakbot, on 02/15/2008, -11/+34Wow, a digg story about Google AND Apple, you fanboys must all have boners.
  • superkendall, on 02/15/2008, -4/+26Other phones have google as the default search engine. But what's the point when you'll end up at a link with a pitiful mobile browser?
  • paradigm1220, on 02/15/2008, -3/+24I read the title and thought Google came out with an iPhone.
  • obijohn, on 02/15/2008, -2/+22You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
  • smackjack, on 02/15/2008, -3/+21no you're just cheating yourself
  • oOLiquidNightOo, on 02/15/2008, -1/+17pretty sure prodigy bought them .. maybe it was aol.

    message me if you if you want some free internet minutes. i have a new aol membership CD with something like 300 free minutes.
  • nakile, on 02/15/2008, -1/+15I think the main reason for this is that many people didn't know that phones could do this.

    After all, most cellphone ads are crap. Blackberry ads consist of the phone floating in the air with some guy telling you what the thing does. The iPhone ads on the other hand have a guy showing you what it does. Grabs you attention a lot better. Heck, my dad, a guy who has nothing to do with technology at all, said "That does look kind of useful."
  • Kerrigore, on 02/15/2008, -0/+13Don't worry, it's only February. There's plenty of time left for you to leave the house.
  • michaelb1, on 02/15/2008, -1/+14I care about his sister very much. I wonder if I can get her #.
  • Ikulus, on 02/15/2008, -1/+13What's remarkable about the statistic is not that they use Google more... it's that they use Google 50 TIMES more.
  • wvaughan, on 02/15/2008, -0/+12Usability is a powerful thing. I've had other phones that had many of the same functions as the iPhone, but I never used them because the user interface was HORRIBLE.
  • Jholder112233, on 02/15/2008, -1/+12You killed it.
  • eatkitten, on 02/15/2008, -3/+14Right, because everyone knows that the college degree is a sacred, meaningful piece of paper that actually reflects what people do and do not know.
  • Spuy767, on 02/15/2008, -1/+12I know that I use google mobile for a lot of superfluous, spur of the moment, searches to find things that get stuck in my head. You know, "Who was that guy. . ."
  • nrballard, on 02/15/2008, -1/+12Absolutely. I've owned quite a few smartphones and PDAs, and I've hated them all...except for the iPhone. The Nokia web tablets came close, but still didn't quite get it right. Browsing just feels so natural on the iPhone that you literally forget you're using a mobile device.
  • adrianmonk, on 02/15/2008, -2/+13Agreed. There's one very simple reason why the iPhone hits google so much more often: it's the only phone that has a *real* web browser on it. You know, one where you can go to just about any page and not worry about whether it'll render OK or be usable on your device.

    Basically, the iPhone browser is the first browser that has actually crossed the threshold where people consider it usable. And so they are using it!
  • jdh24, on 02/15/2008, -2/+13Google + iPhone = perfect digg story.
  • inactive, on 02/15/2008, -3/+14Which means the anti-Apple and anti-Google folks must have sand in their vaginas.
  • dimer0, on 02/15/2008, -17/+26Oh my - @the top two comments on this thread made my frickin year. Hilarious. Well done, mdfrancois and wowmacnut
  • TacticalPenguin, on 02/15/2008, -2/+11it escaped the net when mozilla tried to eat it
  • cgruber, on 02/15/2008, -0/+9$$$$
  • likwidfuzion, on 02/15/2008, -0/+9at night?
  • Spuy767, on 02/15/2008, -5/+13Enjoy bouncing from job to job because you really don't know anything that your degree would suggest.
  • an0nym0uz, on 02/15/2008, -2/+10lame. typical apple fanboy. lamer
  • cgruber, on 02/15/2008, -0/+8Have both, iphone wins hands down.
  • atticus8, on 02/15/2008, -0/+8How I long for a Goople overlord....
  • catachip, on 02/15/2008, -9/+16I love how none of the above comments are actually related to the story. Digg users don't care to comment on the fast supremacy of iPhone in mobile web presence?
  • virtualball, on 02/15/2008, -0/+7Thanks! I ran out of minutes when I was downloading StuffIt!
  • dextroz, on 02/15/2008, -3/+10dogpile for lunch...
  • quomen, on 02/15/2008, -1/+8Yumm... PITAs...
  • Prodigyman, on 02/15/2008, -0/+7and day
  • YodaJones, on 02/15/2008, -3/+10iPhone rocks! No other phone's browser even comes close.
  • JQP123, on 02/15/2008, -2/+9I'm not a real Apple fan, I don't own any of their products. But I have to say, the user interface on the iPhone has set a new standard for a mobile device. And Google is just confirming it.
  • richardhenry, on 02/15/2008, -2/+9I actually do.
  • skidooer, on 02/15/2008, -0/+6Isn't the most valuable skill in any job the ability to quickly find the information you need and apply it to the problem at hand? Isn't using your iPhone to cheat on exams doing exactly that? Sounds like the kind of guy I'd want working for me.

    Although, if he's already graduated high school he is wasting his time.
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