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Google Launches SMS Search Service

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the googling-googling-everywhere dept.

jSpectre writes "Google's been busy introducing a lot of new things this week. The latest, a SMS search service. SMS a message to 46645 (googl) and find local business listings, product prices, dictionary definitions, and more. Go Google!"

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  1. woohoo! by NightDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, now i can search for pictures of naked women ANYWHERE!

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    1. Re:woohoo! by stateofmind · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't know.. ASCII porn doesn't do much for me. :)

    2. Re:woohoo! by El · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, but viewing pictures of nekid wimmin on your mobile phone with it's postage stamp screen is liable to make you go blind...

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    3. Re:woohoo! by Stevyn · · Score: 5, Funny

      (o)(o) ...Na, it's just not the same.

    4. Re:woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      (*)(.) - Janet Jackson

    5. Re:woohoo! by HitByASquirrel · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you're viewing pictures of naked women with a postage-stamp screen i doubt its the action of watching thats making you go blind.

    6. Re:woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Back in my day we had to print our porn on 30x8 punch cards, and we liked it.

  2. Google aren't 1337 any more... by Amiga+Lover · · Score: 5, Funny

    The latest, a SMS search service. SMS a message to 46645 (googl) and find local business listings, product prices, dictionary definitions, and more. Go Google!"

    If google were 1337, their sms number would be 600613.

    1. Re:Google aren't 1337 any more... by BenVis · · Score: 3, Funny

      As long as I can still use this google will always be 1337.

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    2. Re:Google aren't 1337 any more... by Wakkow · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why would they want their SMS to be "boobie"? I think you're thinking of a different kind of search engine...

    3. Re:Google aren't 1337 any more... by Aroma+7herapy · · Score: 4, Funny
      which reminds me of the new nation-wide info phone# for the police in the Netherlands.

      It's 0900-8844, thus 0900-TUIG, which translates in 0900-SCUM..

      Coulnd't help thinking that there is at least _one_ cop in holland who has a sense of humour...

  3. Will it be able to understand messages like.. by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 4, Funny

    whr can i g3t sum t13 f00d?

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  4. Are they evil yet ? by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 4, Funny
    *eyes on watch*

    "I think it's time for Google to go evil in 3...2...1..."

  5. Re:I was wondering how they'd search my SMS by zaxios · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was wondering how they'd search my SMS

    In Soviet Russia, Google searches YOUr, um, SMS. D'oh!

  6. I got some really weird responses by digid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I sent the message "define hello" and got the following response in two seperate messages:

    "(1of2)Glossary * Hello: Help me please Here Holy man Hot Hotel
    How are you? How much is it? Ahlan Aounni affak Hna Shaikh Skhoun Hamy Funak Labass Alek"

    "(2of2)Bshhall Yisswa hada"

    No Joke

  7. Re:But the burning question for /.ers remains... by angst_ridden_hipster · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's a burning question ... ... well, whomever you last laid wasn't telling you the truth when he/she said "but it's all cleared up now!"

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  8. The end of the pub quiz as we know it? by GrahamCox · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...or will they just become fastest googler contests?