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Receive Free SMS/Text Alerts From Google Calendar?

This service by Google Calendar lets you to receive free text/sms notifications (reminders) directly to your mobile. It is loaded with tonnes of features and the user interface is slick and fun to use.

This feature is available to users of most of the countries. If your country and the mobile service provide is listed in the list of supported providers, here are the few simple steps to be followed for enabling mobile alerts


To activate this service:
  1. Log in to Google Calendar page
  2. Click on “Settings” at the top then select the “Mobile Setup” tab.
  3. Select your country from the “Country” pull-down menu.
  4. In the “Phone number” field, enter your phone number.
  5. Select your carrier from the drop-down menu, if requested. If the “See Help Center for supported providers” message is displayed, leave the field as it is.
  6. Click on the “Send Verification Code” button and wait for a text message to be sent to your phone.
  7. Once you receive this message, enter the code you received in your text message into the “Verification code” box and click on the “Finish setup” button.

Now you are all set to receive SMS alerts for the event reminders you create in Google Calendar.

Creating an Event With SMS Alert

From now onwards whenever you create an event, you get an extra option “SMS” in the add reminders section. Choose the SMS option and choose the time before the event when you should be reminded.

So from now onwards hope you never miss an event in your web calendar, even though you don’t have access to Internet.

Flying High With Google SMS

Google SMS for mobile phones is a quick information service. It offers access to Google’s powerful search engine via a simple text message (also known as SMS, Short Messaging Service) from a mobile phone anytime and any place in India or in other countries. Currently, the service is in English only.

Google text message service is not the same as the web-version of google.com where search results typically include links to websites. Google SMS results are text-only and are more suitable for specialized questions that have one (or a few) answers like residential listings, movie times, weather forecasts, flights information, stock quotes, measurements, etc.



Google offers its SMS search service to answer all your questions. All you need to do is SMS your query to 9773300000 (466453 in case of USA) and get immediate reply for your query. For example; you are hanging out with your best friends and you all suddenly decide to watch a movie, you can get movie ratings and show timings with just SMS “movie name, location” and send it to 9773300000.You can get answers to all your queries inclusion of weather, nearest movie theaters, restaurants, train schedules, currency conversions and also your daily horoscope and host of other things.


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

Try it out! Simply send your search query by SMS to 9-77-33-00000 and we'll send you results back by SMS immediately.Of course, don't forget to save 9-77-33-00000 to your phonebook for quick and easy access to Google SMS in the future!

Send a text message to Google with a search request and the answer will be sent back in seconds. In order to ensure more accurate information, requests should include location: zip code, street, city or other. Google saves frequently used locations and the user is able to set a default location for future requests (in case you mention location to the message).


How to use this service

Google SMS service is a 4-step process:

  • Create a text message on your mobile phone
  • In the “To” field enter the number 9773300000 for India (46645 in case of USA) (same as GOOGL) or 466453 a (or GOOGLE)
  • In the body of the message write your question, examples below
  • You’re done! Wait for your reply
  • (you can text “set a location [zip code or city]” to save your location)

Examples of text body in [brackets]:

  • Stock Quotes: Stock ticker symbols - example: [GOOG] or [stock GOOG]
  • Residential Listings: First name, last name, location - example: [John Doe Atlanta GA] Or reverse search by using phone number - example: [212 555 1234]
  • Q&A: Answers to questions covering a broad assortment of topics such as authors, inventors, populations - example: [population of China] or [who wrote Hamlet]
  • Product prices: Keyword [price] followed by product name, ISBN or UPC code, Example: [price ipod nano 8gb] or [price 1740594835]
  • Definitions: Keyword [define] followed by a word or phrase to be defined, Example: [define incorrigible]
  • Translations: Source to destination language, - example: [translate search into French] or [t], as in [t search into German]
  • Conversions: Currency conversions - example: [9.99 EUR in USD]. Standards conversions, such as [100 F in Celsius] or [20 feet in meters]
  • Calculator: Simple calculations - example: [14 * 1.08] or complex calculations that include standard conversions - example: [5 feet 8 inches in cm]