411 Services

For more than three and a half years, GOOG-411 has represented a great way for people with feature phones (and even smartphones) to look up and contact businesses; users just had to dial 1-800-GOOG-411, give a company's name and city, and be connected.  Unfortunately, Google will soon stop offering the service. A post on the Official Google Blog explained this afternoon that GOOG-411 "helped provide a foundation for more ambitious services now available on smartphones," and now, "we're...Read Full Story

Google's voice-powered directory assistance service, 1-800-GOOG-411, is about to be hung up on. Gooogle announced on Friday that the service would end on Nov. 12, 2010.The service allowed you to call 1-800-GOOG-411, and speak the name of a business, along with the city and state. After that, the service could connect you, give you more details, or give you even a list of matches, if there were multiple.It was, of course, an exercise for Google's voice recognition technology. However, who...Read Full Story

It’s been a great run, since 2007, but the time has come to say goodbye. According to the Google Blog, Google will be pulling its 1-800-GOOG-411 service offline as of November 12th. In answer to the “why” question, Google talks about the voice search features (which have now been released for the iPhone as well as Android platforms) and offers the following: Our success encouraged us to aim for more innovation. Thus, we’re putting all of our resources into speech-enabling the next generation...Read Full Story

Google announced that its voice-powered directory services, 1-800-GOOG-411, will shut down on November 12, 2010. Google said that it is shutting the services because it is a success and wants to further innovate it. “Our success encouraged us to aim for more innovation. Thus, we’re putting all of our resources into speech-enabling the next generation of Google products and services across a multitude of languages.” Baloney! Tell that to some one on another planet. Microsoft Chairman Bill...Read Full Story

Back in 2007 we launched 1-800-GOOG-411, a voice-powered directory assistance service that connects you quickly to businesses across the U.S. and Canada. On November 12, 2010, we will shut down the service. GOOG-411 was the first speech recognition service from Google and helped provide a foundation for more ambitious services now available on smartphones, such as: Voice Search – search Google by speaking instead of typing. Voice Input – fill in any text field on Android by speaking instead...Read Full Story

Google has announced, via their official blog, that they are shutting down their automated directory assistance service, 1-800-GOOG-411, on November 12. GOOG-411 was launched in 2007 and was the first service to use speech recognition offered by Google. Google is making the change because many cell phone users are moving to smartphones with internet access and they no longer need to dial 411 to get contact information. For those that don't have a smart phone they still offer the option to...Read Full Story

$3.35 million CVS Pharmacy in the Los Angeles November 5th, 2010 Los Angeles, CA - The Royston Group has negotiated the all cash sale of a $3.35 million CVS Pharmacy in the Los Angeles suburb of Azusa. Located on Arrow Highway, the property is a fee simple ground lease on a 22 year NNN lease with 16 years remaining in the initial lease term. Rob Sutton, Vice President of the Royston Group, represented the owner, a private trust based in Northern California . “This CVS is located on a high...Read Full Story

3 years ago Google launched a directory assistance service that helped to connect users with business in the U.S. and Canada. This voice-powered tool was the first of Google’s many speech recognition services and was followed by Voice Input, Voice Search and Voice Actions, all of which were built from the foundations of GOOG-411. Google announced on their blog today that come November 12, 2010 they would be shutting down the service. The team behind 1-800-GOOG-411 had this to say: “Our...Read Full Story

3 years ago Google launched a directory assistance service that helped to connect users with business in the U.S. and Canada. This voice-powered tool was the first of Google’s many speech recognition services and was followed by Voice Input, Voice Search and Voice Actions, all of which were built from the foundations of GOOG-411. Google announced on their blog today that come November 12, 2010 they would be shutting down the service. The team behind 1-800-GOOG-411 had this to say:Read Full Story

Google bids a good bye to its 2007 launched first speech recognition service, 1-800-GOOG-411. It offered voice based search to deliver directory assistance to find business around the US and Canada. The shut down has been scheduled on 12th of November this year. Not much of the world will miss it since the service is currently available nowhere in the world but US and Canada only. GOOG-411 was basically launched to serve as the platform for further research on Google’s contemporary voice...Read Full Story