I was skeptical but making phone calls from Gmail is awesome. I copy/pasted a number from a restaurant's website to quickly place an order for pickup.
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Now we just need a Chrome extension to let me just click on a phone number to dial. Ideally it would also OCR images for those annoying websites that put phone numbers in a banner.
- Benjamin Golub
If only Europe had it too... :(
- David Schmidt
Benjamin, just wondering, in the future you would probably be doing that search on a cell phone which can make calls already. Is that click to call experience really valuable in the mobile world?
- Todd Hoff
I can do it now. But my phone was on the other side of the room charging. Also I type slowly and voice search isn't that great right now. This was easier. Especially since I was already at my computer.
- Benjamin Golub
Google has already released it: https://chrome.google.com/extensi... You have to setup your Google Voice to call GMail, but the functionality you explained is spot on in the extension (not the OCR ,yet).
- Paul Arterburn
That extension is a bit different. It make Google call you and connect you to the number – it is recorded as an incoming call and feels so backwards. I just want something to pop up a window with the dialer pre-filled. Also that extension makes websites that rely on the order of CSS break: http://code.google.com/p.... It'll be fixed in 6.0 apparently.
- Benjamin Golub