Dante.org » Google Stuff http://dante.org An Embargo on Political Correctness Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:47:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Playing around with Google’s tools http://dante.org/google-stuff/playing-around-with-googles-tools/ http://dante.org/google-stuff/playing-around-with-googles-tools/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:30:08 +0000 dante http://dante.org/?p=3 Like most of you, I am constantly blown away by Google’s constant innovation. The latest thing I checked out is Google Voice Local Search. With this new service you can search for local businesses using your voice, from any phone, for free. All you need to do is dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411).

It is experimental right now so it may be unavailable sometimes. For now, it is US and English only. For more information go here.

I did some testing and so far I have been impressed by the performance of the voice recognition system. Unlike other free directory assistance services like 800-FREE-411 Google did not force me to sit through a painful advertisement. Whether that will change is yet to be seen. If Google does embed advertising into their service in the future I’m sure they will find a less obnoxious way of doing it than 800-FREE-411.

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