Set to be rolled out next wee, Google’s Priority Inbox “automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.” More information. Video infomercial after the break.
Remember the instant search preview we showed you the other day? Well, the experiment is now official, and you can try it here. Aside from live results, they’ve “added a conversations view, making it easy to follow a discussion on the real-time web.” Video presentation after the break.
Often a single tweet sparks a larger conversation of re-tweets and other replies, but to put it together you have to click through a bunch of links and figure it out yourself. With the new “full conversation” feature, you can browse the entire conversation in a single glance.
[via GoogleBlog]
Matt from Vaestro Weekly gives us a hands-on demonstration of Gmail’s new call function. For those who missed the announcement yesterday, “dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone: just click ‘Call phone’ at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.” Video after the break.
Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates.
[via GMail Blog]
You read that right, Gmail users can now make free phone calls within the US and Canada for free. Simply “make calls in Gmail and then talk directly to your computer; Google says the call quality is “really good,” even just using the standard mic and speaker in the laptop you have.” Video after the break. Click here for more pictures from the press conference.
How about receiving calls? If you have a Google Voice number, it’ll bring up a popup in Gmail and you can answer there.
[via Gizmodo]
Google may have a new search feature up its sleeve, one that updates search engine queries with live results. Unfortunately, “Instant Search” is currently in beta and only available to select users. Continue reading for a video preview.
A Google spokesman could not confirm or deny the accuracy of the video. “At any given time we are running between 50-200 search experiments,” he said.
[via PCMag]
It’s that time again, time for another batch of funny Google Suggestions, or in other words, the one entertaining site that’s not blocked at work yet. Click here to see twelve more funny examples.
Google Gravity by Hi-ReS is a fun Chrome experiment that lets you play around with the search engine page’s elements. According to the developer, “type ‘google gravity’ then click ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ — this should come up.” You may have heard or seen of this project before, but now the page is actually live for you to experiment with. Video demonstration after the break.
Just type any phrase, such as “i am extremely”, into Google Search, and you’ll be greeted with a host of suggestions. Some of those suggestions are just too funny to be missed. Click here to see twelve more funny examples.
[via Huffingtonpost]
Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google charging that its Android phone software [reportedly] “infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java.” According to a company representative: “You can’t just take a Java application from a Sun environment, where it’s licensed, and run it on Android. You have to recompile it to Dalvik.”
Oracle alleges that Google was aware of its patents and “willfully and deliberately” infringed them. It also says Google hired some of Sun’s Java engineers.
[via ComputerWorld]
Anyone who happens to use Google today, will notice a special doodle that commemorates the 71st anniversary of Wizard of Oz. If you didn’t already know, “all of the Oz sequences [1939 film] were filmed in three-strip Technicolor; the opening and closing credits, as well as the Kansas sequences, were filmed in black and white and colored in a sepia tone.” Click here to see more Google doodles.