{"id":1966,"date":"2007-10-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:19:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-03T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T11:37:39","slug":"free-directory-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/free-directory-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Goog(le) 411"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"221\">\n<p>Directory assistance has always wanted to be free. Since it launched six months ago, Google&#8217;s foray into phone-based information for business listings has become the easiest, quickest, most efficient free 411 I&#8217;ve used. I&#8217;m amazed more people don&#8217;t have it programmed into their phones. Best part: there are no pre-roll ads. <\/p>\n<p>Another well-known option is <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/free-directory\/\">1-800-FREE411<\/a>, but it can take 20 seconds before the &#8220;What city and state?&#8221; finally arrives. With GOOG-411, the same prompt is delivered in 4 seconds. Time is precious, but even more so if you&#8217;re on a conservative plan with limited minutes. For that same reason (read: frugality), I&#8217;m less inclined to use SMS-based 411 or <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/google-sms\/\">Google SMS<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>GOOG-411 also connects your call to the business for free, so there&#8217;s no need to jot down or memorize any digits. Dialing &#8220;411&#8221; and paying $2 is like flipping through one of Ma Bell&#8217;s analog phone books when you&#8217;ve got a connected laptop right in front of you &#8212;  an easily-remedied symptom of a bygone era.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free directory assistance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[713],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}