If there was a three strike rule for Google SMS Search, Google would have been out a long time ago. For the fourth time in about two months, Google SMS Search went offline again.

The most recent, was the other day. We have two threads at Google Mobile Help. The first thread has confirmation from a Googler.

Googler, Zeke said:

The later thread specifically complains about Google not returning hockey scores. I tried some of those searches and they did not return results for me, but searching for [scores lakers] did work just fine for me.

Here are the past articles we wrote on Google SMS search failing:

Google SMS Search Not Returning Search Results, January 8, 2009Did Google SMS Search Die Again?, January 15, 2009Google Finally Confirms Fixing SMS Search, January 27, 2009Google Mistakenly Sends Dozens of Unwanted SMS Messages To Users, February 3, 2009

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.