While traveling on business, you often need to quickly get familiar with your surroundings. Maybe you need to find a restaurant, a Fed Ex office, a hotel, or whatever. There are lots of options for tracking such info down, but a new and handy method is Google Voice Local Search or GOOG-411.

Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 on your mobile phone and you can quickly perform a local (based on you saying your city and state) search all by voice. You can say a business name or a category like, Chinese food, and the service quickly returns matches in your local area. While listening to the search results list you can ask for the address and phone number (say “Details”) and ask for a listing to be sent to your phone (say “Text Message”).

I’ve already added it to my phone’s speed dial.