Sure, Google may have offered up a neat little search app for the iPhone in the App Store today, but what about applications for its vast number of services other than search? I am seriously disappointed.Thomas Claburn spells out how nice the search application is for the iPhone in his post from earlier today. He also points out that the application points you to other Google products. But they are browser-based applications, and not on-board native applications. I was hoping for much more.

While the iPhone's Safari browser is no doubt a powerful tool, native applications would be better. Just about every photo-sharing site out there has a new application for the iPhone, including Flickr and PhotoBucket. Google's Picasa? Nowhere to be found.

TypePad rolled out its blogging application for the iPhone. Google's Blogger received no such special treatment. There was at least one RSS product available from the App Store, but Google's Reader wasn't one of them. The list could go on.

Of course, there are the browser-based versions of Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Talk, News, Notebook, and iGoogle. Don't get me wrong, these are all usable and work fine ... in the browser. I get that Google is all about the cloud, but having native clients to make accessing some of these services faster or better would be great.

Blogger and Picasa are probably the two that make the most sense to have available in a standalone form. But what I was really hoping for was an application that lets you compose Google Documents on the iPhone and then sync them with Google's Docs online. Now that would have been a very useful app indeed.

It could be that Google is reserving its best for Android, and it probably should. Given Google and Apple's love affair with each other, though, I was expecting more.