Google SMS for your phone

How to search google using SMS in India:

In India, internet on mobile is still not so common and in that case when you need to make search on google, How do you go about it ? Thanks to Google SMS service which is availble for many countries including India, now you can type in your query and send sms to recieve updates on your mobile phone.

For example :

• If you want to search on iPad waiting time. Just type in iPad Waiting Time
• and Send an SMS to 9-77-33-00000

The advantage of this service is that you need not to pay 5 rs an SMS like you do for special numbers. It only costs you local sms charges so you can anytime use it get cricket scores when away from TV, or Indian Railways train schedules, movie show times etc.

Get cricket scores, Indian Railways train schedules & ticket status, horoscopes, movie showtimes, restaurant information and more ...all through SMS on your phone.

Best of all, you don't pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.

Try it out! Simply send your search query by SMS to 9-77-33-00000and we'll send you results back by SMS immediately.

Unicode Character for the Indian Rupee

Proposed Unicode Character for the Indian Rupee:

The Indian Government has proposed to the Unicode Consortium that the Unicode character code U+0971 be assigned for the new Rupee symbol. This was revealed in a presentation by D. Udaya Kumar who is is best known as the designer of our new currency symbol.

It may take several months for the Consortium to include the new symbol in the standard character set but once that is done, you should be able to type Rupee using the standard keyboard without requiring any special fonts.

For instance, Microsoft Word users can insert any Unicode character in a document by typing the character code followed by the Alt+x key. In the case of Rupee, they’ll have to type 0971 followed by Alt+x. Currently this combination will output an unused Devanagri character that the Indian government has proposed to replace with the new Rupee symbol.