I was doing a routine search for an article I had written on 411 for Search Engine Watch, when I discovered this ad at the top of the search results page on Google:
When you go to the site, there’s no information about who owns/operates it. But the privacy policy links to hosting firm LanLogic. This is strange . . .
I wrote previously (based on a Business 2.0 reporter’s “outing” Google) about how the company was testing voice search on mobile devices with the number 1 877-GOOG-411. Companion number 1 877-520-Find offered the same service. More recently, however, the GOOG-411 number “transfers” you to 520-Find.
Very curious . . .
Screenwerk 
October 30, 2006 at 8:13 pm
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great tool is it really free used it 3 times……jon henry
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