Virtual assistant. Rec'd generally good reviews in the tech journals I read. Currently free. Iphone only, probably forever that way since Apple bought the developer.
http://siri.com/
A friend of mine has that installed... I suppose some day soon it will seem perfectly normal for someone to hold their phone up like a star trek communicator & ask it for dinner recommendations, but frankly it's just damn weird to me. lol
That's a great idea, but it appears to be limited to US info.
I call it the hamburger locater. Seems like all I ever use it for is finding food joints. It's a nice fusion of technologies and easy to use when I can't type. Doesn't use Google so that is a plus.
Maybe I talk funny but I don't get good results beyond: "Hamburger, pizza, Chinese, etc." the rest seem too complex.
> finding food joints
Perhaps it's expertise is based on the sheer number of requests in that niche. It learns by doing. I doubt it's a coincidence that the first emergence of Facebook places into the geo-serps was also restaurant recommendations.