Startup offers text message Q&A service

Colly Myers, founding CEO of Symbian, has launched a new startup in the UK, called issuebits.com, offering a search engine-style service to answer any question by text message, reports ElectricNews.net.

UK mobile users can try it out by texting their question to short code 63336. and "within (6) minutes they will get a text answer".

issuebits.com says it has patented Natural Language Processing algorithms as well as real human researchers. The service goes live on Orange and Vodafone networks in the UK on Thursday with the others to follow.

Mark Frauenfelder for TheFeature.com, reported last November on a similar "Ask Experts" type of service which launched in Australia, called Mojo Knows.

emily | 4:34 PM | Ask Experts / Mobile Searches |
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