Mobile Solutions: Lookup from Google with SMS
October 17, 2006
Situation: Your out and about and need to find one of the following fast:
- Thai restaurant
- Movie time
- The French translation for “coffee”
Q: What do you do?
A: Send a text message to Google, of course.
Google has continued it’s tradition of unbounded usefulness. Even if you don’t have a Web browser on your phone, you can look up a variety of useful information, real-time, via (SMS) text messaging. Simply send a text message and get the answer you need. It works suprisingly well.
SMS Quick Start
1. Start a new text message and type in your search query
2. Send the message to the number “46645″ (GOOGL)
3. You’ll receive text message(s) with results
Tip: For help send the word ‘help’ as a text message to 46645.
- Local listings: hospital San Jose CA
- Driving directions: pasadena CA to santa monica CA
- Movies: world trade center 94110
- Weather: weather dallas tx
- Stock quotes: tgt
- Q&A: population of Japan
- Glossary: define prosimian
- Translation: translate coffee in french
- Froogle: price mp3 player
- Zip code: 94043
- Area code: 650
- Calculator: 160 pounds * 4000 feet in calories
- Currency conversion: 5 usd in yen
- Sports: ny jets or boston bruins
- Help: help
- Tips: tips
See for yourself. Check out detailed instructions and a live demo of Google SMS.
I hope you find this useful.
-Roland
Roland Reinhart is an interactive marketing professional and Palm Treo fanatic. His observations can be found at Chaos365.com and AdMadMan.com.
©2006 Roland Reinhart. All Rights Reserved.



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