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April 7th, 2007

Local Search will be the Cause of Google’s Downfall, Heh?

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800GOOG411 - Google’s free voice-based local business search 411 service (FAQs) - is only available in the US now, but who knows about tomorrow? It looks as if Microsoft’sTellMe acquisition won’t be enough.

Aditya - Local search will be the cause of Google’s downfall, heh?

Update 1 - TechCrunch points out that Jingle and AT&T are the other players in the free 411 market.

Update 2 - Read/Write Web extends the discussion to other talking search services.

April 7th, 2007 | Posted in Internet | Tagged with 411, 800GOOG411, AT&T, Conversations, Google, Jingle, Local-Search, Microsoft, Search, TellMe |

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