Get the 411 free from Google Voice Local Search
- Posted On: April 6th, 2007
- Filed Under: Productivity
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Yes - Google's April fools jokes brought to light a relatively surprising shortage of new products from the search giant. Maybe Sunday's jokes were just a warmup because Google has just announced a new service called "Google Voice Local Search."
By dialing 1-800-GOOG-411 you can get connected to a directory of local businesses, get connected to those businesses or even send yourself an SMS message containing a businesses data all for free!
While the service is only available as a business directory and in English it's certainly a cool new addition to Google's lineup. I look forward to getting it linked to GMail so you can gmail yourself details (rather than SMSing them) or even Google Maps.
5 Responses to “Get the 411 free from Google Voice Local Search”
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April 9th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Actually some of these jokes are cool, and i wonder why they don’t implement them, there is a trick behind releasing ideas for projects like this.
- AmerM
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April 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
You’ve got a bug in this form by the way, when the page reloads the website text box generate “http://
” again, the code doesn’t check if the value contains http://.
so my link appeared like this http://http://amerm.net
check the URL for the commenter above.
you can add something like:
if (formName.textbox.indexOf(”http://”)!=-1) {
formName.textbox.value == “http://”
} else {
formName.textbox.value == “”
}just a thought.
- AmerM
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April 9th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
AmerM,
Thank you - I’ve been getting some strange 404s recently and have had trouble figuring out what it was. I think something related to this may have been the cause.
I made a quick adjustment today that should prevent the issue from recurring. Thanks for the heads up!
- WildBil
This is a useful addition to Google’s lineups.
- Nirmal