so, google continues to add features... and sometimes they're really useful! you may or may not have heard about google local - which is a neat tool (even though the canadian equivalent suffers from some pretty spotty data). but, they've now made it just a bit more useful... you can now query google local via SMS (like, from your phone). I think zacker summed it up the best:

13:55 < Zacker> holy crap 
13:55 < Zacker> http://www.google.com/sms/howtouse.html#business 
13:56 < walkah> ya. that's the rock. 
13:56 < Zacker> that is going to change my life 

UPDATE: argh. i just tried from my phone (which is on rogers) and it failed to send, because the 46645 (GOOGL) shortcode is for US only apparently. :(