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March 7th, 2008

GOOG-411 expands outside of United States

Posted by Garett Rogers @ 8:12 am

Categories: Google

Tags: Canada, GOOG-411, Recruitment & Selection, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Garett Rogers

Today I picked up the phone to give GOOG-411 another test drive, and was thrown back after hearing the prompt “What city and province?”. Surely this thing doesn’t work for Canada now — so I said “Regina Saskatchewan”. Sure enough, “Please say a business name or category” — the service now works exactly the same in Canada as it does in the US!

Just like when using it to find businesses in the US, I can get Google to connect me to the listed Canadian businesses too. I would be interested in knowing, if you are outside Canada & the US, if the service works in your country too. I tried London England without any luck — so I’m going to guess that it’s simply North America for right now.

Good job Google — I’m glad you have finally brought the service to Canada, now we’re just waiting for the rest of the world!

Garett RogersGarett Rogers Follow GarettRogers on Twitteris employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.


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RE: GOOG-411 expands outside of United States
I think it's great. Is it free? Been searching for free DA services lately and i ran into ASK411(275411), tried it and it works thoughout canada. I'll keep on using it especially now that it's for free, at least for the entire month. I don't mind texting since i hate talking to computers.... (Read the rest)
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Why were you in Regina  Brian Tdot | 03/07/08
RE: GOOG-411 expands outside of United States  bluemountainco@... | 03/08/08
Useless in Quebec  erykwarren | 03/10/08
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