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Google SMS is evil!

Cell phones should be banned from trivia nights at pubs. People should be able to recall the lyrics to Xanadu from their memory, not by Googling it through their phones.

Anyway, there's been this service out for a while for cell phone users who can text message a question to 466453 ("Google") and some college student will look up the answer and reply back with it. It costs no more than a few dimes. The other night, a friend showed it off for me and asked the Googlebot what he/she had for dinner. (Left over pizza-- definitely a college student).

Here's a video that shows what can happen this brave new world we live in:

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