Send Google Local Info Directly to Your Phone

I was try­ing to locate the work num­ber for one of my friends today, so I went to Google Local to do a search on his busi­ness. Typed in the name of the busi­ness and the city, and up popped sev­eral options, the sec­ond of which was the one I was seek­ing. No big deal. But upon click­ing on the name of the com­pany, up popped a win­dow with the option to send the infor­ma­tion via text mes­sage to a phone directly. I am sure this has been around for­ever, but I had never noticed it. Wow! That is a great tool. I was imme­di­ately taken back to a con­ver­sa­tion I had with my brother a few weeks ago. He was dri­ving the fam­ily south for vaca­tion, and needed to call an audi­ble to the plans. He called me from the road and was hav­ing me look-up infor­ma­tion for him about events and hotels in the new des­ti­na­tion. Look­ing up the infor­ma­tion for him was no big deal, but he was hav­ing to jot down the info or mem­o­rize it while dri­ving down I-75. Had I known about this, I could have sent him text mes­sages with all the info he needed from my desk­top right to his phone. Very slick. I love that I am amazed daily by the world in which we live. If you hap­pen to be on Google local, check out this fea­ture. Inci­den­tally, you can also have Google cal­en­dar send text mes­sage reminders of events right to your phone too. Great stuff.

On an aside, did you know you can cus­tomize the google home­page just by cre­at­ing a Google account? It is so easy to do, and it makes Google so much more enter­tain­ing. You can put var­i­ous mod­ules on your Google Home­page. I have my gmail, cal­en­dar of events, sev­eral RSS feeds, a weather fore­cast, and a magic 8 ball (amongst other items) on mine. They are always adding new mod­ules, putting much of what you need from the web in one place. Cre­ate an account today.
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