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Ostensibly a product that provided free directory assistance, Google was mostly interested in capturing the way different people pronounced words.
In 2007, for example, it began offering 800-GOOG-411, a free directory assistance service that interprets spoken requests.
Mr. Kahn also moved to discontinue the telephone companies' wasteful practice of providing free directory assistance for customers.
Based in San Francisco and privately held, 555-1212.com foffered ofreeedirectoryrectory information, but now charges $9.95 for1000 inquiries.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based Jingle Networks launched a service in September that allows users to get free directory assistance, of the sort supplied by traditional 411 services, in exchange for listening to marketing pitches.
The Michelin guide was first published in France in 1900 as a free directory that offered listings of hotels to promote road travel, which would in turn help sales of Michelin brand tires.
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I initially didn't have much luck searching online for a free reverse directory, and a librarian at a nearby branch would not give out resident information if they could find it in their reverse directories.
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