Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Google SMS
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Cell phones get a lot of publicity these days, some negative such as that car that just cut you off while bozo is busy doing the vocab diarrhea, and the positive like today when a person in the cold wherethehellamI part of New Brunswick managed to summon some help.
Google has also managed to gain more than its share of publicity too by doing new things, or doing old things better than anybody else.
Combine the two and what do you get? Google SMS. This link gives you an idea of text messaging beyond imagination. By text messaging simple questions to a Google number you get answers almost immediately. Directions, phone numbers, postal codes, definitions, movie information, and conversions are right there under your thumb.
This is in beta as they say, but after trying it a few times, I found it pretty difficult to come up with something it couldn't supply information on unless you get really absurd.
Sure if you pay extra and have internet on your phone, you can get Google maps, weather information and so in in a more colourful format. But if all you need is plain and simple information, it is right there on your phone already, for the price of a text message.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Cell phones get a lot of publicity these days, some negative such as that car that just cut you off while bozo is busy doing the vocab diarrhea, and the positive like today when a person in the cold wherethehellamI part of New Brunswick managed to summon some help.
Google has also managed to gain more than its share of publicity too by doing new things, or doing old things better than anybody else.
Combine the two and what do you get? Google SMS. This link gives you an idea of text messaging beyond imagination. By text messaging simple questions to a Google number you get answers almost immediately. Directions, phone numbers, postal codes, definitions, movie information, and conversions are right there under your thumb.
This is in beta as they say, but after trying it a few times, I found it pretty difficult to come up with something it couldn't supply information on unless you get really absurd.
Sure if you pay extra and have internet on your phone, you can get Google maps, weather information and so in in a more colourful format. But if all you need is plain and simple information, it is right there on your phone already, for the price of a text message.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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