Google had to double-check the numbers they were so good. After going over the data, the search company's engineers confirmed that Google sees 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset. Not bad for a phone that represents 0.4 percent of the mobile handset market.
"We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again," Google's head of mobile operations told the Financial Times this week.
Google's even predicting that if other companies follow in Apple's footsteps by making web access commonplace on their mobile handsets -- like Nokia did this week -- the number of mobile searches could outpace the fixed internet variety in several years.
That internet lust isn't just relegated to the U.S., either. The U.K.'s exclusive iPhone carrier, O2, announced plans this week to roll out a bunch of femtocells in order to handle the extra iPhone internet usage.
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