Google SMS Channels: Send Free SMS Text Messages to Your Groups

In addition to subscribing to RSS feeds via SMS, you can also use Google SMS service to receive news alerts via Google News or weather information about your city.

Google India has just launched a free SMS service called Google SMS Channel, which allows you to subscribe to other types of information like horoscope, jokes, stocks or even cricket scores through SMS alerts, blog updates and SMS text messages.

If you are based in India and want to subscribe to this site on your mobile phone via SMS, please join the Digital Inspiration SMS channel on Google. You do not pay anything to send or receive SMS messages using Google SMS Channels.

Google SMS Channels, which are very common with SMS chats, are also free for content publishers as well as mobile phone users who subscribe to text updates via SMS.

Family or friends can create private SMS groups on Google SMS Channels and can stay in touch via SMS without paying any fees to their mobile carrier.

In addition to receiving a blog RSS feed via SMS, you can also use Google SMS service to get news alerts and weather information on your phone.

Another interesting part – You do not really need a mobile phone to send an SMS to your group because Google has an option in SMS channels that can write and send SMS messages through the web. It supports English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.

The Google SMS channel currently works with only India’s phone numbers but they are “working towards making this service available at international numbers”.

To find an SMS channel from a mobile phone, just SMS ‘SEARCH’ to 9870807070.

To unsubscribe from an SMS channel to the phone, SMS ‘OFF’, where is the name of the channel on 9870807070.