Mobile Solutions: Lookup from Google with SMS

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.

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