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Biddy-Biddy-Boop

George R [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, November 11, 2007
16 years ago3,221 views

Chris Albrecht of GigaOM interviews Bill Byrne of google about the "biddy-biddy-boop" sound developed for the 800-GOOG-411 phone directory service.

http://gigaom.com/2007/11/10/goog-411s-biddy-biddy-boop/

George R [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Here is an mp3 ogf the sound.

http://goog411.googlegroups.com/web/1-800-goog-411.mp3?gda=Y0TV50MAAAB7GA88RxiKfMmJbBD-l3LOftcXfMw_zBUSWbpHeV8HeGG1qiJ7UbTIup-M2XPURDTr3bKJgB1KeNxedXzzC5fjaRO12GarSki7FMoIuUXfNA

Here are some slashdot comments.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/10/1959227

George R [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Here is a wma of a goog-411 halloween sound reported by "13 ideas".
I wonder if they will have other holiday sounds.

http://www.geocities.com/blog_13ideas/goog411_oct31.wma

http://13ideas.net/2007/10/31/goog-411-easter-egg/

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

First sound link doesn't work

George R [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It works for me. It is a background sound, so you may want to raise the volume.

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