Comments on: 877-520-FIND (Goog 411)

By: Goog-411 R.I.P. – I’ll Miss You | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:13:31 +0000

[...] have followed Goog-411 from its seriptitious inception masquerading as a non-Google service called 520-find, to its bizarre rural advertising [...]

By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Your mobile phone meets the ether

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:23:02 +0000

[...] Microsoft acquires TellMe. I have been a big fan of 877-502-Find as a safe and productive tool for cell phone calling. It demonstrates effectively how voice (even though frustrating 10% of time) can move local search data easily into the mobile world. It avoids the DWT (driving while typing) offense that seems likely to kill people and is less frustrating than talking to directory assistance in a foreign country. The TellMe acquisition will put this type of service on the front burner as Google, Microsoft and others compete for the next generation of mobile search. [...]

By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local » Will Google Maps (Local) data become more accurate & useful over time?

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:47:37 +0000

[...] -The 520-FIND voice activated directory service which I now use instead of my phone contact list to dial my clients when on the road. [...]

By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local » A summary of Bill Slawski’s Google Local Search Patent summary

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:49:04 +0000

[...] As Bill noted, Google Local is a “structure generation engine” that collects information from a wide range of structured and unstructured data sources, “normalizes” this information and presents that which is trusted to the user in its local directory, the Google organic search results and “responses to others requests for information” (see 520-find and Google SMS). [...]