Now one can send text messages from Google

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rishil - 11 Oct 2006 18:48 GMT

I am an Google fan and love most of their offerings but I never knew
about this.
A Google page that allows you to send free text messages. Pretty simple
looking form too

more details at
http://askwiki.blogspot.com/2006/09/send-text-messages-from-google-for.html

Enjoy !!

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Ange1o DePa1ma - 11 Oct 2006 20:31 GMT

>I am an Google fan and love most of their offerings but I never knew
> about this.
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> Enjoy !!

The only problem is the recipient still incurs charges for receiving these
messages.

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Pegleg - 13 Oct 2006 16:06 GMT

>The only problem is the recipient still incurs charges for receiving these
>messages.

The sender does also depending on what plan they have...so many text msg
for $X/month or $.X/msg.

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Ange1o DePa1ma - 15 Oct 2006 21:56 GMT

>>The only problem is the recipient still incurs charges for receiving these
>>messages.
>>
> The sender does also depending on what plan they have...so many text msg
> for $X/month or $.X/msg.

Not true. Google does not charge to send what is essentiall an email to a
VZW email/inbox address. It's free for the sender.

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Frankster - 12 Oct 2006 02:40 GMT

I haven't used the Google one yet (have to check it out). But I've used
http://www.teleflip.com. Works great. No charge.

-Frank

>I am an Google fan and love most of their offerings but I never knew
> about this.
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>
> Enjoy !!

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Frankster - 12 Oct 2006 02:49 GMT

Okay, I tested it. It works. The big downside is that you have to select the
carrier of your recipient. What if you don't know it? Also, every major
carrier already has an on-line free SMS message sending website anyway.
Again, the downside of using the carrier's website is that you have to know
the carrier. http://www.teleflip.com does it free without you needing to
know the carrier.

-Frank

>I am an Google fan and love most of their offerings but I never knew
> about this.
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>
> Enjoy !!

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Evan Platt - 13 Oct 2006 15:57 GMT

>I am an Google fan and love most of their offerings but I never knew
>about this.
>A Google page that allows you to send free text messages. Pretty simple
>looking form too
>
>more details at

Instead of spamming what I'd bet is your blogspot page,

the URL is

http://toolbar.google.com/send/sms/index.php

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Pegleg - 13 Oct 2006 16:03 GMT

>Instead of spamming what I'd bet is your blogspot page,
>
>the URL is
>
>http://toolbar.google.com/send/sms/index.php

Received a warning the URL above is a "phishing" web site.

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rocxspam - 14 Oct 2006 01:25 GMT

>>Instead of spamming what I'd bet is your blogspot page,
>>
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> Received a warning the URL above is a "phishing" web site.

Are you referring to toolbar.google.com, or the OP's site? The google
site looks legit to me.

I see "rishibalbu" posted pretty much the same thing back on 9/24 (with
a resultant discussion on alternatives for sending text messages from
websites, ISP SMTP providers, etc), and since he wants viewers to "find
out" at his site, the OP's site looks a bit suspect to me - like saying
"come to my site to find out how to get on the Internet" - duhhh...

But I don't think it qualifies as phishing (not asking for sensitive Id
or account info) - looks more like a pay-per-click ad portal to me, but
not going to click on any of its links to find out.
FWIW

ROC

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