Comments on: Goog411 http://jasonmlee.net/archives/15 bytes about bits in church IT Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:14:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Szpunar http://jasonmlee.net/archives/15/comment-page-1#comment-14 David Szpunar Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:53:58 +0000 http://jasonmlee.net/archives/9#comment-14 Their privacy policy doesn't bother me. Interesting you should mention their 411 service though. I've been using their SMS text message service (send query to GOOGL, or 46645) and so I almost never need to call via phone for 411. But <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071030-get-lost-a-google-411-and-microsoft-live-search-411-throwdown.html" rel="nofollow">Ars Technica just did a review</a> I read a couple of days ago between Google's phone 411 and Microsoft's Live 411 competitive service, which is what I thought of when I saw your post. They did a lot more testing than I ever would! Fortunately (for us), Google and Microsoft can both afford to throw money at tiny solutions that are useful in the hopes that it'll either be really big and they can sell more ads, or we'll just love them so much more for all they do for us (so it's branding, basically). Their privacy policy doesn’t bother me. Interesting you should mention their 411 service though. I’ve been using their SMS text message service (send query to GOOGL, or 46645) and so I almost never need to call via phone for 411. But Ars Technica just did a review I read a couple of days ago between Google’s phone 411 and Microsoft’s Live 411 competitive service, which is what I thought of when I saw your post. They did a lot more testing than I ever would!

Fortunately (for us), Google and Microsoft can both afford to throw money at tiny solutions that are useful in the hopes that it’ll either be really big and they can sell more ads, or we’ll just love them so much more for all they do for us (so it’s branding, basically).

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