this is amazing and has come as news to me...i dont know if its old news but its really cool...was reading the following TIME magazine article (interesting read btw):

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/a...-561499,00.html

i found the following:

quote:

For example, you can call a phone number in California — it's 650-318-0165--and do a Google search over the phone. Why would you ever want to? Who knows? Or go to catalogs.google.com, and you'll discover a service that searches 6,000 mail-order catalogs for you. Some lost soul at Google literally sits there and scans catalogs.

i tried that number and it just kept ringing, however...i'll try again tomorrow.