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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:Sad day by benedict · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    --
    Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."