14 DAY TRIAL // GOOG-411 is one of the main steps made by the Mountain View company to conquer the mobile users wherever they are. Today, the product officially graduates from the Labs platform which is supposed to test all the technologies before they are upgraded to final services. In case you never used GOOG-411, you should know it is a technology which invites you to dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from your mobile device in order to find business listings for a certain region. This technology is pretty useful if you're looking to obtain information about some businesses using the mobile phone. The service's auto-voice-recognition enables the consumers to search for info without having to type anything and connect to the business they like in a matter of seconds.
"These algorithms had to be trained with real utterances, much like how a baby learns language by listening to its parents. Since its unveiling in April, GOOG-411 has successfully served millions of callers. And we owe a big thanks to everyone who took our speech recognition algorithms from infancy to adulthood!" Jonathan Matus, Product Marketing Manager, wrote on the main blog of Google.
In addition to Labs migration, GOOG-411 also received a brand new homepage that allows visitors to find out more information about the product.
"People have been spreading the word about GOOG-411 to their friends and families. And now we're happy to report that our local business info service has officially graduated from Labs. To mark the occasion, we're celebrating with a brand new website," the Google official added.
In the recent period, Google worked a lot on the Labs technologies and besides GOOG-411, Reader is another solution now available as a final solution. Just like GOOG-411, Google Reader received lots of updates and was finally released in the wild a few weeks ago.