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+ Thu, October  7

Google SMS

Certainly by now everyone knows that Google makes the most useful tools of anyone out there.  Free, massive email, the best aggregated news of anyone, free usenet archives dating all the way back, an incredibly adaptive and knowledgeable calculator, local searching, maps, stocks – there’s not a lot they don’t do.

Today, they totally one-upped themselves in my eyes: Google SMS.  Loading Google on your phone has always been an easy thing (with a spartan page like that, certainly) for those lucky enough to have the web via their phone, but now you can access their knowledge via SMS text messaging.  Looking at this page, you can see how to look up businesses, people, addresses, prices, definitions, the calculator and – the best – quick facts all via your phone, nearly instantly.

The set of people with text messaging but without data transfer abilities on their phone is huge.  This is a huge step for the complete pervasiveness of Google into our lives.

I must say, it’s a wonderful thing to have such great guys providing such an insanely powerful and free service for as many people as they can.  Completely fantastic.

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