Remember the 411 service 1-800-GOOG-411 that Google launched a few months back! It’s a toll free service in the U.S. that uses speech recognition to search for businesses such as ATMs, grocery stores, gas stations etc. Now, GOOG-411 allows you to say “map it” when the search results are being spoken out to get a SMS [...]
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Why Google should purchase Zvents or Eventful
A few days ago, Google Calendar introduced a new feature called Calendar ‘Galley’ that contains a variety of event listings from the likes of Atlantic Records, Cordless Recordings, Disney, Eventful, JamBase, Orbitz, the NBA, Netflix, The New York Times, TLC, Wcities, and Zvents. This makes it easy for one to find an event and add [...]
Backlash on “Street View” is great publicity for Google Maps
Google maps has a new “Street View” that shows a street-level view of a location. It currently has panoramic views of miles of streets around San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver. These pictures were taken in real-life, so people that were nearby when the camera was passing by are also captured in [...]
