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I didn't know it ever worked that way, that's incredible. Reminds me of ChaCha, the texting service where you texted questions and a human would quickly look up
by vlunkr 4y ago
I didn't know it ever worked that way, that's incredible. Reminds me of ChaCha, the texting service where you texted questions and a human would quickly look up the answer and text it back. It's a very cool idea that was quickly outmoded by smart phones and is kind of lost to history now.
- solardev 4y agoFunny enough, even Google used to do that... before smartphones and the Google Assistant, you could text GOOGL (46645, I think) a query and get back a quick answer: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/get-411-with-46645.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/get-411-with-46645.h... They eventually shut it down :( https://slate.com/technology/2013/05/google-sms-search-shutdown-angers-people-who-had-forgotten-it-existed.html https://slate.com/technology/2013/05/google-sms-search-shutd...