Comments on Tenebrous, Stygian

Fuck yeah. If you keep a Google Calendar, which I urge you to do, you can get text message reminders of events. And you can text your calendar to give you your list of events for the day, or the next day. I think you can also add events to your calendar through text as well. With Google Calendars you can add and share Calendars with friends, businesses, etc. It's pretty sweet.

i know you can check airline flights and just about anyting else too... sports games, scores, movie times.

Google helps me find out where I left my boxers the other night, all - the - time.

"Sorry, 'who is Christopher Frizzelle?' did not return any results."

Sorry Christopher -- your existence is just as questionable as the Broadway Grill's.

Geez, no wonder you can't pay your Comcast bill - your cell phone bill must run into the three-figures with all those text messages.

Here's an actual page on actual Google with the actual things you can actually do.

I think you should hold a contest to see who can come up with the best use of Q&A.

I pay a little extra for unlimited texts, Comte.

Free information--no more 411 from land line or cell phone: 800-GOOG-411. Try it!

since you're not busy, why don't you come down to our office? i have some work that needs doing.

That URL should be wordnet.princeton.edu.

It's an aging database whose aim is to create a semantic network of word meanings by linking together synonymous words. Methodologically wobbly, but practically useful in a lot of different natural language applications.

Not that they need any promotion, but Text a ZIP code to MYSBUX (697289) and in a minute you'll receive three replies with a nearby Starbucks location, complete with address and phone number, and URL that links to a web-page showing a map. Obviously this won't do you much good if you're traveling and have no idea what ZIP you're in!

It also does math and unit conversions.

Hmmm, the Cop Salad from the Grill sounds good. Just get it with the dressing on the side...always on the side. They tend to put too much on it.

I usually like my "Cop Salad" with the Taser on the side...extra mace...YUM!

I've found that if you get a tracking number for a package, nine times out of ten, googling it will pull up a link to the tracking page. Works with UPS, FedEx and USPS, so far as I've found.

This doesn't work on all phones that accepts texts. Mine is admittedly less than state-of-the-art, but neither is it a dinosaur, and i have never been able to get anything back from googl via text. tried maybe 5 or 10 times. i just make my friends do it and pay for the txt.

If you text 'set location seattle, wa' to google, then your default location will be set to seattle. Then, you could type in just "weather" and it'll return weather in seattle, or search for "home depot" and it'll return just seattle-nearby home depots. Etc. and Etc.

You don't even have to type in the whole word for 'define tenebrous'

d tenebrous

same with weather!

w 98107

Yayness

Everything that Google can do that they're telling us about, here:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html

They have your FBI files already, but only cops can search those, at www.fbi.google.com ...Have a paranoid day!

I personally use the "site:" and "-" and "+" prefixes before URLs and words to search within a site, and exclude or force-include words. But that's on the web version, not the SMS/txt stylee.

Here is that post you were looking for. It's no longer on the Stranger's server, but there was a copy in my Google Reader.

Mar 9, 2006 8:00 PM
This Could Change Your Life
from Slog by AMY KATE HORN

Anthony (our IT deity) told me that if you send a Google query from your cell phone, you'll receive the results in a text message. Send a query to 46645 ("GOOGL," a "US shortcode") and Google will send the top result back. It seems useful for looking up word spellings and definitions, finding business addresses and driving directions, and acing pub quizzes.

More info here. Download a wallet-sized Google phone tip card here.