50x really is astonishing.

I do notice from personal use that sometimes it’s just so much faster and easier to whip out the iPhone and check mail or search Google than powering up and waiting for my mac to boot. Some nights, I don’t even launch the laptop, I just use the iPhone.

iPod Touch will factor in there eventually (I believe the browser detects differently for the Touch, so they should be able to distinguish the figures).

AppleInsider | Google iPhone usage shocks search giant

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.

February 14, 2008 - Apple, Google -