On Friday, I used GOOG-411 to find the address of an Indian restaurant I was going to in the upper west side. GOOG-411 failed me before I eventually stumbled on the restaurant. But, in spite of Google’s failure, I was really curious about the “holding” noise that GOOG-411 makes while it’s performing a search. It’s actually pretty interesting because it varies so widely. Sometimes it’s a quick “beep-boop,” and other times its a long chain of similar, but not identical, looping “biddy-biddy-boops.” It sounds like a friendlier version of the computer out of War Games.

Anyway, thanks GigaOm for reading my mind and satisfying my curiosity by telling us all about the origin of the “biddy-biddy-boop” noise.