improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . july 2014 this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources gtip news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message alienpants ltd type limited company industry mobile services computer games information technology founded april 2 2001 headquarters london united kingdom area served united kingdom europe key people tom gordon ceo products gtip game guru news0r services sms based question answering constulting customer support games related services sms list management text to win bespoke content bespoke mobile marketing online pr website www.alienpants.com gtip was a premium rate sms question and answer service dedicated to providing computer game related information . the service was based in the uk and originally launched in december 2002 alongside the game guru television program . the service was run by alienpants ltd. using gtip and its licensed implementations mobile phone users could text gtip with any computer or console game question or cheat request and receive an answer within a few minutes citation needed . gtip was available for uk mobile phone users using a number of different uk shortcode and keyword combinations in the uk and in the republic of ireland using a shortcode . alienpants once launched two access keywords in germany providing the same computer game cheats service to german customers citation needed . since the commercial launch of gtip in january 2003 1 a number of similar services have launched including askmenow in the us and 82ask text a vet and any question answered in the uk . underlying service edit the underlying service that gtip is built on is predicated on the answering of questions sent in from customers via sms with the questions being queued and presented to multiple independent researchers through a web interface . each independent researcher then selects and answers questions when they are available . answers are then sent back to the customer via a premium rate sms . typically an implementation is built upon a unique keyword used for branding when supplied to a customer and whilst the gtip implementation is deliberately limited to answering computer game related questions a business decision around this particular brand the service itself can be used to provide generalist question answering services such as any question answered or closely controlled question answering services such as a customer support service for a single business . references edit http www.alienpants.com news prevreleases 06 01 03 smscheats.php archived august 7 2007 at the wayback machine . external links edit gtip website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gtip & oldid 738387830 categories sms based question answering serviceshidden categories articles with wayback machine linksorphaned articles from july 2014all orphaned articlesarticles needing additional references from january 2016all articles needing additional referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from october 2008all articles with topics of unclear notabilityall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 september 2016 at 17 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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