Google SMS enables you to access information that’s especially helpful when on the go. You can search for certain kinds of information from a mobile phone or handheld device and see the returned search results as text messages. You can get phone book listings, movie showtimes, weather, facts, dictionary definitions, product prices & more.
This service enables you to use the Google search engine from a mobile by sending a regular SMS with a query to the short code 4664 and receive a response in the form of a text message with the answer from the Google search engine. The cost for each query or a chat message sent is the cost of a regular outgoing Tigo to Tigo SMS (GHC 0.0403)
Mechanics
Using your phone’s text message function, for example, to define an animal, you send the keywords Define + Animal as shown below.
e.g. [Define Animal].
- Send the message to the shortcode 4664 .
- Google receives your search query and sends back a text message with results. In this case, the definition of an animal is given: “A living organism characterized by voluntary movements. Source: Wordnet. Princeton.edu/perl/webwn”
Search Areas
- Weather: Just enter [Weather] followed by your city
- Glossary: Just enter [Define] followed by your word you want to define
- Sports: Just enter [Name of League] followed by your word your Team want information on or [Score] followed by your [Team or name of club]
- Translate: Source to destination language, e.g. [translate search into French]. Alternatively, you can use [translate search into German].
- Calculator: Simple calculations, such as [14 * 1.08] or complex calculations that include standard conversions, such as [5 feet 8 inches in cm]
- Conversion: Currency conversions, e.g. [9.99 EUR in USD]. Standards conversions, such as [100 F in Celsius] or [20 feet in meters]
- Q & A: Answers to questions covering a broad assortment of topics such as authors, inventors, populations, e.g.[population of Germany] or [who wrote Hamlet]