London – Smartphones have overtaken traditional computers as the device we turn to for information.
Search giant Google announced this week that a new tipping point in the shift to mobile devices had been reached with more than half of the search requests it processes being for mobile devices.
Google, which dominates the global search market, now processes more than 100 billion search requests every month.
The internet giant named only two of the countries – the United States and Japan – in its findings, but technology experts said the list was likely to include Britain, which has long been at the forefront of changes in the way people use mobile technology.
More than 100 billion search requests are made through Google every month – far more than through its competitors such as Microsoft’s Bing.
The iPhone was launched in 2007. Within four years, sales of smartphones and tablet devices overtook those of PCs for the first time.
Daily Mail