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Friday, October 8, 2004

Google SMS is actually cool

When I read about Google's new SMS service on the Google blog yesterday, my initial reaction was "so what?"; however, after checking out their SMS How to Use page, I think it could be very useful.

For example, let's say you're out shopping and find a sale on an item you're interested in like the Archos AV 420 personal video recorder. Using Google SMS, you can search Froogle to determine if the sale price is actually competitive with other retailers. Here is an example of the syntax you could use: "price Archos AV420"

Or let's say you're travelling and you want to find some place to get a good slice of pizza. Using Google SMS, you could search Google Local for restaurant listings in that area. In this case, you would use the following: "pizza 90210"

Check out the Google SMS How To Use page to see how the results are formatted. They also provide a printable tip sheet that you can keep with your phone.

¶ 12:21 PM

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