Google Weather

Continuing with its trend to add more portal features, Google now has quick access to current weather conditions and a four day forecast for U.S. cities and ZIP codes. Strangely enough, the weather information does not link to a source for more detailed weather information for the locality, even though the Weather Underground (from which Google gets its weather information) does have more detailed conditions and forecasts. This is also available via SMS by sending a text message to the U.S. five digit shortcode 46645 (GOOGL on most mobile phones) followed by the weather query. As Gary notes, Google is finally catching up with a feature that AltaVista offered back in 2002.