Friday, December 14, 2007

Send text message for Google search

You can send a text message to Google at 466453 (spells Google on your keypad), and within a second or two it replies back to you with the information you need. You can type in a person’s name plus city and state and get their contact information, including address. You can text something like “sushi 78745” and find all the sushi places in that zip code.

You can also get weather reports by texting “weather (name of city),” along with sports scores, stock quotes, dictionary definitions, movie listings, and driving directions. Get the full information and instructions at www.google.com/mobile/sms This service is no-cost except your own text messaging rates will apply via your provider.