Close to the heels of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launching SMS based information services in India, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has followed suit by announcing the launch of OneSearch SMS. Users can query the short code 58242 for the weather, stock prices, local business information (currently for 4 cities only) and news. The launch of the SMS service follows a few months after the launch of the GPRS based OneSearch service. I’m not sure if the SMS service is working right now. I just SMS’ed Dlf to 58242, and it’s supposed to return the stock quote. Been a couple of minutes, and nothing so far. Not that Google SMS is error free – check out the comments on our post on Google SMS[via release]
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