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New to Google's mobile products? Check out our getting started guides for Google Search, Google Maps, and Gmail.

Overview: How to use SMS

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When you use Google SMS, you're sending a specialized query to Google. This could be a query for a phone book listing, for the definition of a word, or for the square root of 7,569. Based on your query, Google determines the information you're looking for and returns the top results. Follow these steps to get started

  1. Send a query to the number 466453 (if it helps you remember, those numbers correspond to GOOGLE).
  2. We'll return text-only results (there are no links or webpages, like you'd get on Google.com.

Before using SMS, you can play with our demo. Here, you'll see sample queries and the types of results you'd get with SMS.

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