
Now You Also Can Call Bing 411.
Lost in all the excitement around today’s public preview launch of Bing , Microsoft’s new search engine , was the subsequent launch of Bing 411 . This is a direct swipe at another Google product, GOOG-411 . Both are free and both use speech-to-text technology and voice recognition to completely automate directory assistance calls. GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) has been going for a while, and is surprisingly intuitive.
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