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 ...

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.

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).

Google is officially moving away from using SMS messages in its Gmail account two-factor authenticator. Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told Forbes, “we want to move away from sending SMS ...

Google has killed off another of its services that many of you may not even know existed. I've never heard of the Google SMS Search Service, and I bet more than a few of you haven't either.

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 ...

Ok, before I start this post, I have to admit that I'm a bit sensitive to the criticism posted recently in this thread that my previous Google-related post hypes Google as some kind of savior of ...

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 ...