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MWC 2008: Google: 50x More Searches On iPhone
['Gordon Kelly', 'Reece Bithrey', 'Simon Handby']
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Stunning us all this week are quotes from Google’s Mobile Operations Head Vic Gundotra, who told the Financial Times this week at the Mobile World Congress that Apple’s iPhone has made 50x more searches using its service than any other handset on the market. Secondly, Google is the default integrated search engine in the Mobile Safari browser and thirdly, Google has specifically customised its pages to be more intuitive for iPhone users with direct access to Gmail, Calendar, Reader, etc. And while he may have been impressed with the iPhone, Gundotra showed the company isn’t prepared to play second fiddle to Apple’s handset: “We want every phone to be a Google phone.