{"id":2668,"date":"2010-10-11T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2010-10-11T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:59:33","slug":"google-is-making-their-awesome-411-service-walk-the-plank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"Google is making their awesome 411 service walk the plank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is making thousands of phones cry this week by announcing they’re going to cut off their free 1-800-GOOG-411 service on November 12th of this year.<\/a><\/p>\n

I mentioned this awesome service back in September ’09<\/a>, and I’ve used it pretty much daily. It has been a lifesaver on my trips through the Texas yonderosa, and has consistently been on my top 10 speed dial favorites for over two years.<\/p>\n

Google seems to be keel-hauling all ships that aren’t flying under the “Android” flag with this move, pointing out that you can still use Voice Input and Voice Actions on Android phones, but all other phones can suck it. (Actually, that “suck it” part was my interpretation of their press release<\/a> about the Voice Input and Actions bit.)<\/p>\n

Google still says “you can send a text message with the name and location of the business to 466453 (“GOOGLE”) and we\u2019ll text you the information”, so that’s still something awesomely free.<\/p>\n

I’m writing gblog@google.com to shamelessly plead for mercy myself.<\/p>\n

Here’s the official press release from Google<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google is making thousands of phones cry this week by announcing they’re going to cut off their free 1-800-GOOG-411 service on November 12th of this year. I mentioned this awesome service back in September ’09, and I’ve used it pretty … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies","category-news","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t