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Zook:Search and Get Answers Via SMS For Free[India Only]
Friday, October 17, 2008 @ 7:43 PM  ¦ StumbleUpon Toolbar Stumble It!  ¦ 

1: You are chatting with your friends and one of them suggests to go for a movie -body of lies but no news paper around you to check which cinema hall is playing that movie.

2: You have gone to a new place and you don't know where to find ATM machine to draw money.

3. or you may want know which restaurant makes your favorite dishes in your locality...

How do you get the answers for the above queries that you want to know badly?

The answer is Zook, a mobile answer engine that lets you search anything(almost) via SMS for free. Just SMS your query to 57575665 and Zook will get you the answers with in a matter of seconds. No registration required. Even it doesn’t require Internet connectivity on the phone. So a common man who owns a simple mobile phone can search through SMS and can get answers. Update: Your Operator may charge for sending SMS based on your plan.

Whether you want to know about movies, restaurants, ATMS in your locality,traffic,weather or even good-tasty masala dosa available in your city, just SMS to Zook. Check out what answers people are getting for their queries live at 42.zook.in.

When the search terms are not understood by the search engine, the search is turned over to the community assisted platform, where a network of people would manually search the result (predominantly non-English) and provide the answers to the user.
[image credit and content via Deccan Herlad]

The interesting part of Zook is that you can create custom alerts
under different categories including deals, movie show times, events, weather, traffic updates and cricket scores. For example, to set an alert on movies, SMS "alert movies Bangalore" to 57575665 and you will get alerts automatically whenever new movies are released in Bangalore city.

Zook is very impressive and makes your mobile phone most useful device.

Bonus tip: For Bangaloreans- to know any information about anything in bangalore, just give a missed call to 080 40164016 and Bangalore dreams will call on your mobile and give the required information for free.

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