Is anyone aware of a service that would let me phone a researcher with
access to google while on my cell phone, and have them do a search and
read me the results right then?  Or I could modify the terms andhave
them search again, etc.?  Obviously there would be a cost based on the
time they spent helping. Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 07 Nov 2004 13:01 PST

I know of a non-Google service that does that, and personally I cannot
vouch for good service or recommend this service. Would you like to
get links to this service as an answer?

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Clarification of Question by rdharris01-ga on 09 Nov 2004 03:23 PST

Hi,

Yes, please send me that link.  Thanks.

Dear RD Harris, 

Keen.com (or Keen.co.uk, for the UK site) provide such a service: 

<http://www.keen.com/default.asp> 

Articles about Keen: 

Keen Advice Via Microsoft? - J-Walk Blog , Monday, 02 December, 2002 
http://j-walkblog.com/blog/index/P9075/ 

Expert Advice Online at a Price
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/23/BU33420.DTL&type=tech>

As far as I know, Keen is the only service of this kind, which is
fully active, and as you can see from the two articles (as well as
from my own remark in my request for clarification), I don't know
whether to recommend it or not.

Another ideas that might help you: 
- To surf from your phone, if possible, and to note, when posting a
question here on GA, that you need the answer ASAP ;
- Check with your cellular phone provider: some companies (i.e.,
Orange), have an SMS-based advice centre (for a fee, of course). This
is cerntainly not what you asked for, but it might be cheaper.

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Clarification of Answer by politicalguru-ga on 11 Nov 2004 22:07 PST

I'm so sorry. This should have been "Other ideas", of course.