Testing GOOG-411

I just saw the video about Google’s 411 service on bookofjoe (I’ve added it below) and decided to give the service a try.  I called the 1-800-466-4411 number and when prompted asked for "Winston-Salem, NC" and then when asked for a business name I said "Cicciones" which is one of my favorite pizza joints.  I figured you couldn’t get much harder than that for voice recognition.  The results?  A+

Google gave me four choices and after each one I could either press the key for what I wanted or say the number.  Option 3 was the Cicciones right down the street from me and when I said "three" it automatically dialed the number for me.  Best of all is it’s FREE.  There’s also an option to have the restaurant’s info text messaged to my phone and since my Blackberry is web-enabled it can send a map to me as well. These folks continue to amaze me.


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