Filed under: Macworld, Internet Tools, iPhone

The developers at Google are hot on the iPhone, due in part to something called the “Christmas cross-over.”

The number of global Google queries (say that five times fast) from iPhones surpassed queries made from Symbian-based phones for the first moment in December, probably due to all the iPhones that were activated by the holiday.

Earlier that month, Google released iGoogle for the iPhone as well as an iPhone-optimized Google landing page. Today at Macworld, they announced more improvements for iPhone users (beyond those

First all, Gmail features auto-refresh. Calendar is speedier and features a month view that isn’t available at calendar.google.com, and iGoogle gadgets can be used with the iPhone. I’ve found that Picasa web albums are significantly faster, both by Wi-Fi and EDGE.

These are great changes. We don’t know just how Google is rolling that stuff out, so keep checking google.com/m today.

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Orginal post by Dave Caolo