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1-800-GOOG-411 fue uno de los servicios que el gigante de las búsquedas puso en marcha en el 2007, el mismo estuvo disponible para las empresas de EE.UU y Canadá.
Sin embargo el próximo 12 de Octubre será cerrado, de hecho en su blog comentan que gracias a GOOG-411, hoy en día existen servicio mejorados como son:
- Búsqueda por voz en Google ahorrandote el tener que escribir.
- Entrada de datos por voz para rellenar cualquier campo de texto en Android, hablando en lugar de escribir.
- Acciones por voz con el que puedes controlar el teléfono Android con comandos de voz.
Ese éxito que tuvo GOOG-411 estará presente y con mejoras en los smartphone, donde seguirán potenciando este servicio.
Por otro lado para compensarte este servicio si aun no dispones de un smartphoney deseas contactar una empresa pues debes enviar SMS con el nombre y la ubicación de la empresa a 466 453 («GOOGLE») y obtendrás la información.
And yet another great service is going to shut down, because of lousy marketing department in Google! The big problem with Google is that they don’t know how to market their great technologies and make money out of them. In this case their objection is that since they developed native apps for smartphones they don’t see any advantage in Goog-411 and therefore they won’t continue the service. I guess they should look into numbers, even in US the majority of people still use regular phones rather than Smart phones. So this is not a good excuse to abandon this great service.
Whit this attitude, Google is going to lose its customers, especially now that they step into Enterprise with their Google Apps. With this attitude, there is no guaranty for businesses to switch to Google and layout their needs on Google Services, because Google might withdraw those services with or without any reasons. i.e. Just in May, 2010 @Google IO they announced that they are opening Google Waves for Apps’ users and couple months later they retired Wave! It’s hard to trust on experimental technologies, and that is why Google hasn’t been able to make money on most of its products except the search.
Google! Please change this attitude!
Mahdi you’re right!!!
Great Comments my friends.
Regards
GM
I had early used the 1800GOOG411 service and found it to be fairly helpful. I regret seeing the service being shutdown. Although recently I had used the toll free service of Justdial. I called up 1800-500-0000 and my queries were answered within 60 second by a real person. They also connected me to the vendor that I was looking for. Truly I think Justdial is one step ahead of 1800GOOG services.