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Companies like Google, offer free directory assistance via text message. One is offered by Google (at the five-digit address 46645), another by UpSnap Inc. of Davidson, N.C. (at 27627) and a third by Synfonic Inc. of Berkeley, California. In each case, typing the word ''rice'' and the ZIP code 11215 was enough to get him the number of Rice Thai Kitchen, though the text messages also offered alternatives, like Paul Rice Architecture (from Google) or Nancy Rice M.D. This is according to Mr. Garrick.