Check out this new service offered by Google for those of us who don't want to pay out the ass to use web services on our cell phones. They've designed an SMS (Short Message Service) based internet query that can give you tons of different types of information just by sending and receiving text messages. Everything from business listings and driving directions to weather, movie times, and stock quotes.

Just enter your query as a text message, and send it to 46645 (GOOGL on most phones). You should get a response within about a minute. Pretty damn neat-o.

Checkout the Google SMS home page for more info about what it can do.

- these thoughts flowed through Jeff's fingers @ 11:47 AM