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Google To Shut Down 411 Service

Posted by Soulskill on from the guess-we're-back-to-calling-the-ghostbusters dept.

taco8982 writes "After three years of providing free directory assistance in exchange for voice samples, Google has announced plans to shut down the GOOG-411 service, in order to focus on 'speech-enabling the next generation of Google products and services across a multitude of languages.' The service will close on November 12th."

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  1. Re:what? by ajrs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never even heard of it. I wonder how many dozens of obscure Google services there are out there

    If only there were some automated tool to find them all. A search engine, if you will....

  2. Re:what? by binarylarry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahhh, this the worst thing since they shutdown GOOG-976!

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  3. Almost as obscure as by assemblerex · · Score: 2, Funny

    Goog-8675309

    1. Re:Almost as obscure as by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Damn you Tommy Tutone.

  4. Re:Awwww! by peacefinder · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess you're REALLY gonna miss it then. :-p

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  5. Re:Sad day by benedict · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Disco verbing"? What the hell is disco verbing?

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  6. Re:Sad day by tool462 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's what you do the night after your expert sexchange.

  7. Re:Smartphones by whereiswaldo · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about GOOG419^WGmail?