"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 during this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Once again, we see evidence that the Apple iPhone has fundamentally changed the wireless game and made the full-fledged Internet mobile for the first time.

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.

The result is more data traffic and new traffic patterns.