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next_xibalbayesterday at 11:21 PM1 replyview on HN

I miss 411GOOG. It was fun and felt like a cool fusion of new and old tech.


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nostrademonsyesterday at 11:32 PM

Its purpose was to get training data for speech recognition. Once Google’s speech recognition was working reliably, there wasn’t much reason to offer the service got free.