Thursday, 14 February 2008

Google says mobile search is getting bigger (and it doesn't plan a gPhone)

An interview on FT.com with Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations, says that mobile search is growing beyond expectations, citing high usage on Apple's iPhone as an example. He says the iPhone is responsible for 50 times more mobile searches than any rival handset, suggesting that the number of mobile web searches will overtake PC-based internet searches in the next few years if the trend continues. He added that Google was unlikely to build its own mobile phone and that it was aiming for “every phone to be a Google phone” by getting Google's Android operating system on multiple devices.

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