Tue 29 Nov 2005
I feel like I’m on a promoting binge here. Check out Google’s SMS info service. It’s saved me at least one on the road when I was lost and needed directions (and didn’t want to lose 20 minutes by trying to find a gas station for directions). And I’ve used to figure out the the location of area codes from phone numbers I don’t recognize. It’s helped with my addiction to screening calls.
November 30th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
4INFO (shortcode 44636) has a similar text message offering, but provides several additional services that Google does not: sports scores (”lakers” “nfl”), fantasy stats (”kobe bryant” “randy moss”), flight times (”swa san jose san diego”) and a beta version of mobile download search. All these services can be accessed via SMS (44636), WAP at http://wap.4INFO.net , or at http://www.4INFO.net.
Why 4INFO instead of Google?
“When asked recently for the address of a trendy downtown Manhattan club called Butter, both 4Info and Yahoo! located it on the first try. But Google sent back results better suited to baking.”
- Wendy Widman, Forbes.com. 8/3/2005
Write a post about 4INFO and we’ll link to your blog from our site! Send link to contact@4INFO.net!
November 30th, 2005 at 5:01 pm
Even though the above got caught in my filter as SPAM, I guess I’m allowing it. I haven’t tried out this 4INFO thing, but it might be useful if they don’t charge anything for the SMS message.
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