{"id":457,"date":"2010-11-11T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sedcclint.com\/rip-goog-411"},"modified":"2010-11-11T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T16:12:00","slug":"rip-goog-411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/11\/rip-goog-411\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP GOOG-411&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.google.com\/images\/logos\/goog-411_logo.gif?resize=215%2C40\" height=\"40\" alt=\"1-800-GOOG-411\" width=\"215\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>      <\/div>\n<p>        Back in 2007 we launched 1-800-GOOG-411, a voice-powered directory assistance service that        connects you quickly to businesses across the U.S. and Canada. On November 12, 2010, we        will shut down the service.      <\/p>\n<p>        GOOG-411 was the first speech recognition service from Google and helped provide a        foundation for more ambitious services now available on smartphones, such as:      <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/goog411#\">Voice Search<\/a> &#8211; search Google by speaking instead of          typing.        <\/li>\n<li>          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=laOlkD8LmZw\">Voice Input<\/a> &#8211; fill in any text          field on Android by speaking instead of typing.        <\/li>\n<li>          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/goog411#\">Voice Actions<\/a> &#8211; control your Android phone with          voice commands. For example, you can call any business quickly and easily just by saying          its name.        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Our success encouraged us to aim for more innovation. Thus, we???re putting all of our        resources into speech-enabling the next generation of Google products and services across a        multitude of languages.      <\/p>\n<p>        If you don???t use a smartphone, and you???re trying to call a business, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/goog411#\">send a text message<\/a> with the name and location of the        business to 466453 (&#8220;GOOGLE&#8221;) and we???ll text you the information, or on Gmail you can use        the new <a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/call-phones-from-gmail.html\">phone-calling        features<\/a> to call any U.S. business free of charge. Also, if you don???t have the free        voice search app pre-installed on your phone, you can download it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/goog411#\">here<\/a>.      <\/p>\n<p>        Thanks for all the calls, and keep an eye out for all the innovation to come.      <\/p>\n<p>        <em>The GOOG-411 Team<\/em>      <\/p>\n<p>        ??2010 Google &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/terms_of_service.html\">Terms of        Service<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/goog411#\">Privacy Policy<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google Home<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/\">Mobile        Home<\/a>      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/goog411\/\">google.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am very sad about this. This service was amazing AND free, which is rare these days. You can still text these requests to 466453 (&#8220;GOOGLE&#8221;), but there was nothing better when you are on the road to call this one number, ask for a business, have all of the information texted to your phone, and connecting the call for free.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought that I&#8217;d see the day when Google would cut BACK on the services that they offer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2007 we launched 1-800-GOOG-411, a voice-powered directory assistance service that connects you quickly to businesses across the U.S. and Canada. On November 12, 2010, we will shut down the service. 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