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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:Sad Day! by sznupi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If those are the factors that matter, then I'm sorry but you're drooling over wrong piece of art - Qur'an nicely supercede it in all of those criteria (it's easy to become a Muslim, just one honest declaration needed, go ahead, you know you want to worship the right book...)

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    One that hath name thou can not otter