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Official Google Blog: Extending Google services in Africa
googleblog.blogspot.com - 6/29/2009
Official Google Blog: Extending Google services in Africa
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At Google we seek to serve a broad base of people—not only those who can afford to access the Internet from the convenience of their workplace or with a computer at home. It's important to reach users wherever they are, with the information they need, in areas with the greatest information ...

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BBC NEWS | Business | Google access disrupted in China
news.bbc.co.uk - 6/25/2009
BBC NEWS | Business | Google access disrupted in China
— news.bbc.co.uk — Access to Google has been disrupted in some parts of China, amid a row over what Chinese citizens should be allowed to view over the internet. Users reported they could not access either Google's search engine or its Chinese-language version. Chinese ... (more) BBC NEWS | Business | Google access disrupted in China

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Google SMS Launches
WebProNews Feed — ... A post on the Official Google Blog points out that more Africans own phones than computers, and that Africa boasts the world's highest mobile growth rate, too.  Google SMS should prove much more useful than any sort of optimized website, then.  And here's an important note: it's free. ...

Google’s Africa Strategy: Search And Trade Via SMS
TechCrunch — ... it also wants to make all that information available to everyone in the world. For the majority of the world’s population, that means making it available on a cell phone, and not a fancy iPhone or Android with a Web browser either. I’m talking about $10 cell phones with not much more than voice and SMS capabilities. If Google can reach people, especially in developing nations, with SMS, it can reach everyone with a cell phone. In Africa, it is launching a suite of SMS services today, including SMS search, Q&A-style tips, and an ...

Google takes steps to make information available to all in Africa with Google SMS.
The Next Web — ... Africa has reportedly the world’s highest mobile growth rate and mobile phone penetration is six times internet penetration. This being so, Google today announces a number of SMS services aimed specifically at mobile phone users in Africa, called ...

Google Launches SMS-Based Services for Africa
ReadWriteWeb — Google today announced a number of SMS-based services specifically targeted for the African market. Google SMS provides access to information by SMS (news, local weather, sports, agriculture tips, etc.), Google Trader is an SMS-based marketplace where buyers and sellers can connect, and Google SMS Tips is a query-and-answer service that can take any free-form text query, find the keywords, and then identify and return a relevant answer from a large database. Sponsor As Google points out, Africa has the world's ...

Google's Africa Strategy: Search And Trade Via SMS
textually.org — Not only does Google want to organize all the world's information, it also wants to make all that information available to everyone in the world. TechCrunch reports. In Africa, it is launching a suite of SMS services today, including SMS search, Q&A-style; tips, and an SMS-based marketplace. The first country to get these services is Uganda. The search service works like Google SMS in North America. You text a search term, and it responds via SMS with the result. Searches can be narrowed by using specific keywords such as “local ...

Google Launches Suite of Text-Based Apps in Africa
Gearlog — ... "You enter a free form text query, and Google's algorithms restructure the query to identify keywords, search a database to identify relevant answers, and return the most relevant answer," Google wrote in a blog post. ...

Google aims for less developed nations with Google SMS
VentureBeat — ... Those of us with smartphones probably access Google on our mobile devices already, but usually as a supplement to usage on our desktop and laptop computers. Google SMS is part of an effort to reach people who don’t have Internet access at all, starting in Uganda. In its announcement, Google points to ...

Google Launches SMS Services in Africa
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... works like Craigslist - you can search for, buy and sell goods entirely by SMS. Since they’re gearing these services primarily towards developing contries with limited internet access, this reminds me a lot of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Life Tools, and will hopefully do just as well. MTN Uganda is the only supporting carrier right now, but with any luck, it’ll spread across the continent. To get started with Google Africa’s SMS tools. [via Official Google Blog] Related News from IntoMobile: Google Phone = ...

Google Launches SMS Mobile App in Africa
Search Engine Journal — ... Google is extending its services to mobile phone users in Africa via Google SMS. Google SMS is a suite of mobile apps that provide access to information covering various topics such as health and agriculture tips, news, local weather sports and more. This is Google’s way of extending its services and reaching out to African mobile users who rely so much on SMS in carrying out their day to day activities. ...

SMS service launched in Africa by Google
Phones Review — ... According to the Google blog, Google has now launched 3 new SMS services, Search, Tips, and Trade, all geared towards the African market. ...

Google Mobile Services in Africa
D' Technology Weblog — ... including health and agriculture tips, news, local weather, sports, and more. The suite also includes Google Trader, a marketplace application that helps buyers and sellers find each other. Google SMS Tips is an SMS-based query-and-answer service. After you text a free-form query, Google algorithms restructure the query to identify keywords, search a database to identify relevant answers, and return the most relevant answer. More info: Google Blog ...

Google SMS en Africa ofrece una tienda de productos por mensaje de texto
Celularis — ... antes del producto que se necesita y luego da el teléfono del vendedor para que lo contacten. En cuanto a Google SMS tips, en un servicio diferente a la clásica búsqueda por mensaje de texto ya que tiene un formato de pregunta-respuesta, donde uno ingresa una consulta y los algoritmos de Google la reestructuran para identificar las palabras clave, buscan en la base de datos y devuelven la respuesta más relevante. Google realizó estos programas con la ayuda de la organización Grameen de Uganda (el ...

Can Ovi Boost Nokia’s Fortunes in the Developing World? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... see mobile phones as a gateway to get more people from developing regions on the web. In June, Google released three SMS-based mobile applications in Africa that allow people to access web information on their phones. ...

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