Last week the Financial Times published an article about the iPhone, and some surprising data that Google uncovered. What Google found is stunning:

Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the group’s confidence at being able to generate significant revenues from the mobile internet.

“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The iPhone represents the future of the mobile device market. As soon as device manufacturers  figure out how to produce phones as intuitive and web-friendly as the iPhone, we should see a dramatic shift in the way consumers use their phones, and in turn, the web. Google is confident that this is going to happen:

If the trend continues and other handset manufacturers follow Apple’s lead in making web access easy, the number of mobile searches will overtake fixed internet searches “within the next several years”, Mr Gundotra said.

Read the entire article @ the Financial Times.