Cell phone search takes on Net engines

The U.K. service Any Question Answered taps human researchers and computer archives to answer queries sent via text message.

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There's a better option, and it's free!

Put your local public library on speed-dial. Librarians are trained to find answers, and they have thousands of dollars of reference materials backing them up. You are guaranteed an authoritative answer with a source to refer to later.

Automatic Q&A Services

Nuggets is a service available in the UK that
answers questions fully automatically. It's
half the price of AQA, but of course neither service offers any correctness guarantees.
Works pretty well for trivia like "When was
Galileo born?". See www.mynuggets.net
Google also has a somewhat simple SMS search for specific things (products, restaurants), but you can't access general internet content there. It's US only, but free at www.google.com/sms