Search Engine Land reports:
Last year we heard informal statements from several Google employees that mobile search queries would probably overtake desktop queries some time this year. Google just confirmed this has now happened.
The company says that “more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including the US and Japan.” The company declined to elaborate further on what the other countries were, how recently this change happened or what the relative volumes of PC and mobile search queries are now.
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Google groups tablets with desktops. So this is just smartphones and does not include tablets.
There’s also an interesting misalignment of this report with some Comscore reports.