Pizza, Weather & Movies at Your Fingertips from Google Tom Whittaker

Now this may be something everyone is using and heard of but me, but I just came across this a few weeks ago and figured I would share.

Google has a great feature where you can get info just by sending a text message. So I’ve used this a few times lately and it is great. You can get an answer to most questions by sending Google a text message (sms). To do it, simply send a message to 466453 (G-O-O-G-L-E).

Here are some example of what you can do:

• definition zenith (returns the definition of zenith)
• weather 80202 (returns the weather conditions for the zip code 80202)
• score Colorado Rockies (returns the score for the Colorado Rockies game)
• movies 80005 (returns list of movies playing, you choose the movie and it returns movie times)
• translate hello in german (returns the word hello in german, ‘hallo’)
• stock goog (returns stock quote for ‘GOOG’)
• 5 gallons in liters (returns conversion results)

There are a lot of other cool things that you can do with it. For more information, and an interactive demo check out Google’s web page on the subject here.

Now some really cool ones:

• pizza 80202 (returns pizza parlors in/near zip 80202)
• aa 2111 (returns flight status for American Airlines flight 2111)
• price ipod player 40gb (returns product pricing for an ipod 40gb nan0 of $124.50 and where product can be purchased)
• Madonna birthday (returns date of Madonna birthday 8/16/1958)

Now remember, text message rates apply - so if you are charged per text or your plan is limited be careful.

And why not just use my mobile browser? I hate to say it, but this is 1,000 times quicker. Thanks Google.

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