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I didn't know it ever worked that way, that's incredible. Reminds me of ChaCha, the texting service where you texted questions and a human would quickly look up the answer and text it back. It's a very cool idea that was quickly outmoded by smart phones and is kind of lost to history now.


Funny enough, even Google used to do that... before smartphones and the Google Assistant, you could text GOOGL (46645, I think) a query and get back a quick answer: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/get-411-with-46645.h...

They eventually shut it down :( https://slate.com/technology/2013/05/google-sms-search-shutd...




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