Google Messages is adding a trash folder for deleted texts, bringing it in line with iMessage and other messaging apps.

Google apparently shut down its SMS Search function last week without warning, but the news barely made a splash outside of its niche group of feature phone owners. Our team tests, rates, and reviews ...

Google SMS Applications is a set of apps that lets users access Google services such as Search, Gmail, Calendar, Voice and Blogger via SMS. Chances are that many readers won’t have heard of it, but it ...

After trying to perform searches via Google SMS Search last week, many users discovered that the mobile search service had been discontinued. In the Google Web Search Help forum, a Google spokesperson ...

Google SMS Search, which allowed mobile phone users to access information through brief text messages rather than having to use a mobile Web browser and data plan, has been shut down by the search ...

Search Engine Roundtable reports today that Google’s SMS Search service isn’t working: When you send a search term to 466453, Google quickly replies that your query “did not return any results.” Barry ...

It always surprises me how few people know about Google SMS, arguably the most useful cell-phone service on the planet. If you know how to send a text message, you can retrieve a wealth of valuable ...

A day after it emerged that Apple is taking credit for Google adding iMessage reactions on Android, the Messages app is beginning to roll out the ability to leave reactions on SMS texts, which is ...

Google rolled out a new look and feel for two-factor authentication earlier this year, and soon it will encourage people still using the text message-based system to try it out. Google Prompt pops up ...

A California judge has refused a motion by Google do dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit that claims it sent text message spam to phone numbers added by users to its group messaging service Disco.

While much of the developed world has grown used to high-speed internet access, the majority of the African continent remains without reliable and affordable internet, placing modern communication ...