If you’re out and about, you can call GOOG-411 and get local information about businesses. Now we’ve made it even easier to orient yourself without a map in front of you: call GOOG-411, ask for ‘details’, and in addition to the address and phone number of the business, we’ll also point you to the nearest street intersection or adjacent streets.

You can try it now: call 1-800-466-4411, look up ‘Google in New York’, ask us for more ‘details’, and we’ll tell you that our Chelsea office is ‘near the intersection with West 16th Street’. Unless you’re a seasoned New Yorker, this might very well save you from walking up or down a few blocks.

Link:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/05/…

Don’t know about Goog-411? Read about it here:
http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/04/goog-411-google-voice-local-search.html

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