Google's SMS search feature, where you could text a question to google and get a response, has been discontinued without warning.

Whenever a product is being discontinued it's normal for there to be a warning period beforehand, this time there was not. When you send a message to the service you get this reply: - "SMS search has been shutdown. You can continue to search the web at google.com on any device."

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-sms-search-dead-16772.html

Has this service now become obsolete anyway? It strikes me that it would have been to accomodate users from the days when phones had no fully functional browsers.