Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Searching Google From SMS through Mobile phones

For those people who want to search Google through their phones which isn't web enabled or for finding information through SMS itself can be done with Google SMS service. The service is already there from many years and is offered for free of charge for the users, The SMS charges applicable for sending SMS to the number is applicable and google doesn't charge people for sending the reply messages back.

The service now is present in many countries of the world while the service number for it being common mostly for many countries while it being of different numbers also exist in some countries like India, china, UK etc.. The service can be used for finding out nearest restaurants, pizza huts, train schedules, currency conversions, weather of the place and weather forecast, movie timings, stock quotes, cricket scores etc...

Sending the SMS with the search term to Google will get a reply from Google with search results while the reply SMS could vary from 1 to 6 SMS depending on the search query been done.


For USA and most of the countries(includes European countries also) --->

SMS <Your search term> to 466453 (GOOGLE)

For India --->

SMS <Your search term> to 9773300000

For China --->

SMS <Your search term> to 1069999333

For European Countries --->

SMS <Your search term> to 17605370537


A SMS query for currency conversion of 1 USD to INR gets this result  gets the following result.





Similarly a SMS query for Bangalore weather gets the following result.





Google Mobile website has more details on this regard while a demo search to find out how the SMS result replies will be there can be found here.
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1 comments: on "Searching Google From SMS through Mobile phones"

Frank Zweegers Reply to comment said...

I never knew this, too bad I read it after having internet on my phones for years...

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