I just wanted to share some of these neat services Google has made available. Make sure to add the numbers in this post to your address book so you would be more likely to use it.

Text 411
Simply text message your search query to 466453 (“GOOGLE” on most devices) and we’ll text message back your results. So what are some specific examples of what type of information is available?

Flight Status
Simply text your flight number to 466453 (‘GOOGLE’ on most mobile devices), and the status information will be sent back to you. Or text a specific airline name, and Google will send back the main phone number to call. So an example would be: Flights: ua 14

Weather
Simply send the following text to 466453 (‘GOOGLE’)
Example: (W)eather: w nyc
so w + your zip would also work

Pizza spot locator
Simply send an SMS to “GOOGL” or “46645″ with say “Pizza and your ZIP Code”

Here are some other examples, some are more useful than others:

The other day I received an email about the upcoming MSA East Zone Conference in Newark, NJ. When I opened the email, I saw this huge Red table, and I was like woah! It had a big warning message on it (see screen below):

Even after marking this email as “Not Spam” this message had not gone away. After clicking around I found a new feature (see below):

Usman blogged about it not being fair that Google could take pictures on bridges. Time Magazine raises the same point.

Time Magazine Excerpt:

Is that man breaking into an apartment building? Does that tollbooth
operator realize she’s being photographed? And isn’t it illegal to have
cameras in New York’s Brooklyn Battery tunnel?

Such questions have been raging online in recent weeks, as Google’s
new” Street View” has sent techies scrambling to browse through the
miles and miles of street-level photos now available through Google
Maps. But while such blogs as BoingBoing.net and Mashable.com have made
something of a joke out of the many humorous (a man apparently caught
mid-sneeze), bizarre (the ghost of E.T.?) and lewd (a woman’s underwear
poking out of her low-riding jeans) images captured by the web giant,
privacy concerns have led many watchdog groups to quickly retort that
Street View is no laughing matter.

Read the entire artice here.

Its Official, Feedburner has been purchased. The feedburner team has blogged about it, in order to shed light on what this means for the future. If you visit any blog which is run for commercial purposes, you will find that they use feedburner to distribute their feeds. Reason being that for a commercial blogger stats mean everything. Advertisers will only consider a blog which has proven its worth. With feeds content can be viewed in other ways than by pages being loaded in browsers (thats the whole point of a feed!). So bloggers need a different way to determine their readership. Now that Google has taken them over, you can sure bet to see adsense integration. I just hope they won’t make it as complicated as analytics which I’m still struggling to understand (the reports are kind of bizarro). Oh FB has also put out a FAQ on the aquisition.