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Oct 9, 2007
One of my non-techy friends introduced me to something pretty cool a few months ago.
Did you know that you can send a text message to Google at 46645 (which spells “googl”) and it will return to you a list of things….
the main thing I use it for is when I’m looking for a phone number. I can text “Pizza, 72211″ and Google will instantly reply with the phone number and address to pizza places near 72211. Alternatively, I text “Pizza Hut, 72211″ I will receive the phone number and address of the pizza hut.
This is a broader search and returns more information than the traditionall “*411″… and it’s cheaper! It only costs you a text message.
For more information, check out Google’s SMS help page.
GREAT piece of information. I tried it out on a number of things last night, and the response from google is almost instant. One cool thing: you can text “movies help” and it will send you movie showtimes for the area. Very handy.