Google SMS has lots of features that GOOG-411 lacks, like flight arrival details, and language translations. You can even set your ZIP code so that the big G knows where you're searching from.

While Google has closed more than 70 services since announcing they were doing some spring cleaning in 2011, there was no advanced warning that Google SMS Search was going to be discontinued.

As I've mentioned before, Google SMS is a fabulous tool for fetching information from your cell phone. Just shoot a text message to 466453 (GOOGLE) and you can get all kinds of helpful stuff in ...

How cool is this: With the new Google SMS service, you can do basic Google queries from any SMS-capable phone (which is darn near all of them) by sending text messages to 46645 (GOOGL).

We've long been fans of using Google SMS to fetch information from our phones. Now we can use it to retrieve airline numbers and flight status. Just text your flight number to GOOGLE (466453) and ...

Google Messages is testing a nudge that'll let you remind your friends to flip on RCS if they haven’t already.

Did you know that Google Messages actually supports text formatting? Unfortunately, though, this feature isn't available to ...

Google is known for have a clear and well thought out messaging strategy. Yeah, we didn’t think you would buy that.And the tech giant is once again complicating things, by stripping what is a ...

Google announced a new test service that allows people to use mobile phones or handheld devices to tap Google's Web search via text messages, or short message service. IE 11 is not supported.

A user on the Google My Business forum sums up why this sucks for agencies: “This is horrible. We were utilizing messaging option with our chat program. Were onboarding many clients that would ...