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Nov162006

Google SMS (Beta): What Doesn't Google Offer?!

I present Google SMS (Beta).

Google SMS (Beta) offers great features. Helpful features. Features absolutely perfect for Student 2.0. With a simple "translate apartment in german" sent to 46645 (or GOOGL), Google SMS (Beta) will hit you back with:

"Google Translation:
'apartment' in English means 'Wohnung' in German."

After spending a semester in Berlin, Germany, studying at the Freie Universitaet, I concur. How sweet is that! Not just limited to translation, though, Google SMS (Beta) also offers a glossary, a calculator, currency conversion, and even your local movie listings.

Check out all the options.

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Reader Comments (1)

4INFO.net (text to 44636) has a similar text message offering, but provides several additional services that Google does not: text alerts for sport scores, weather forecast, stock quotes, horoscopes, and services for player stats ("allen iverson"), flight times ("swa san jose san diego"). 4INFO recently launched the ability to make any blog or news feed accessible from a mobile phone. In a matter of minutes, you can create a keyword that your readers can search to get your latest post or sign up for text alerts.

January 17 | Unregistered Commenterfoxyliz

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