Comments on: IQ-tips: Free 411 calls? http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:09:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Greg B http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269/comment-page-1#comment-26682 Greg B Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:51:50 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269#comment-26682 As further evidence that Google is taking over the world, they now have a really cool, free, voice recognition 411 service. Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (800-466-4411). You can even have them text results to your phone instead of directly connecting you, if you prefer. As further evidence that Google is taking over the world, they now have a really cool, free, voice recognition 411 service. Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (800-466-4411). You can even have them text results to your phone instead of directly connecting you, if you prefer.

]]> By: Molly http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269/comment-page-1#comment-25779 Molly Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:09:03 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269#comment-25779 I will never use that free 411 service again! First, they asked if I was calling from a cell phone, and I answered honestly that I was. Then they informed me that I'd just signed up to get text messages from them! I don't have text messages in my cell phone plan, so I get charged 15 cents a pop... not good. Next they asked me to say the name of the business I was looking for, which it didn't recognize, so it gave me the option of saying the type of business (it was a bar), and proceeded to start listing off every single bar in Omaha... so I hung up. Then I got my first text message from them (15 cents). It said I could text back to unsubscribe, so I did (15 cents). Then it sent me a message to say that I had successfully unsubscribed (15 cents). Then it sent me another message - presumably because the message had been set in motion before I unsubscribed (15 cents). So much for a free call! I will never use that free 411 service again!

First, they asked if I was calling from a cell phone, and I answered honestly that I was. Then they informed me that I’d just signed up to get text messages from them! I don’t have text messages in my cell phone plan, so I get charged 15 cents a pop… not good.

Next they asked me to say the name of the business I was looking for, which it didn’t recognize, so it gave me the option of saying the type of business (it was a bar), and proceeded to start listing off every single bar in Omaha… so I hung up.

Then I got my first text message from them (15 cents). It said I could text back to unsubscribe, so I did (15 cents). Then it sent me a message to say that I had successfully unsubscribed (15 cents). Then it sent me another message – presumably because the message had been set in motion before I unsubscribed (15 cents).

So much for a free call!

]]> By: Thursday http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269/comment-page-1#comment-1266 Thursday Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:55:20 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269#comment-1266 I'm a motorcyclist, and the most frightening thing I've ever seen was a driver of a camper watching a portable TV on his dashboard... I’m a motorcyclist, and the most frightening thing I’ve ever seen was a driver of a camper watching a portable TV on his dashboard…

]]> By: paperback writer http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269/comment-page-1#comment-1228 paperback writer Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:20:22 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1269#comment-1228 I really wish someone would pass a nationwide law regarding cellphone use and causing accidents. I really wish someone would pass a nationwide law regarding cellphone use and causing accidents.

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