April 20, 2005

Google SMS

Cool technology toy of the day: Google SMS. Send a cell-phone text message to Google and get back the answer (weather, prices, search results, movies, driving directions). Very nifty. And, it nicely routes around the expensive internet options provided by cell phone companies (of which I'm not using) and uses plain old SMS technology, something built into pretty much every phone for quite some time now. And since I tend to send a lot of SMS messages, I'm already paying for 'em, so this service works for me...

I'm pretty sure I'd seen this before, but I didn't play with it until I saw Nick Finck's mention of it today.