Comments on: Nifty local playthings http://www.solanasaurus.com/2006/02/24/nifty-local-playthings/ don't bite me Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:12:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bob Roth http://www.solanasaurus.com/2006/02/24/nifty-local-playthings/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Bob Roth Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:17:42 +0000 http://www.solanasaurus.com/?p=27#comment-22 4INFO (shortcode 44636) has a similar mobile search text message offering, but provides several additional services that Google does not: sports scores ("lakers" "duke"), fantasy stats ("kobe bryant" "jaromir jagr"), flight times ("swa san jose san diego") and a beta version of mobile download search. All these services can be accessed via SMS (44636), WAP at http://wap.4INFO.net , or at http://www.4INFO.net. Why 4INFO instead of Google? “When asked recently for the address of a trendy downtown Manhattan club called Butter, both 4INFO and Yahoo! located it on the first try. But Google sent back results better suited to baking.” - Wendy Widman, Forbes.com. 4INFO (shortcode 44636) has a similar mobile search text message offering, but provides several additional services that Google does not: sports scores (“lakers” “duke”), fantasy stats (“kobe bryant” “jaromir jagr”), flight times (“swa san jose san diego”) and a beta version of mobile download search. All these services can be accessed via SMS (44636), WAP at http://wap.4INFO.net , or at http://www.4INFO.net.

Why 4INFO instead of Google?
“When asked recently for the address of a trendy downtown Manhattan club called Butter, both 4INFO and Yahoo! located it on the first try. But Google sent back results better suited to baking.”
- Wendy Widman, Forbes.com.

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