Top 5 Google Product Reviews

Google has engaged itself to roll out many cool and amazing releases this year by providing user with a better,easy and faster experience to stay connected and search even more accurate. Here I will be discussing some very useful and effective releases in forms of tools, apps, plug-in and many more that are been launched up til now.

+1 the pretty cool recommendation tool
While using your Google account, you must have noticed a small icon having + along with a 1 with it. This is Google’s new search capability shorthand as “this is pretty cool”, which provides user with much appropriate and quicker result. It works in a social way by that I mean it takes recommendations from your own people, friends, family, coworkers, and people in your contact list and display you list of recommended results. To recommend just click on +1 on any webpage or ads you browsed. One just needs to have an upgraded Google profile to enjoy this new search experience. This surely results to be very useful for the advertisers which are connected with different ads. Google also plans o provide the same capability in the search soon.
 
Talk Guru
You might have gone through traditional chat bots like Google Sms Support, which were used earlier. Google has revamped its Google Talk and released the beta version in form of an intelligent system which provides answers for all your queries on an instant message, it can be considered as a search engine alternate. To experience sign into any chat client supporting Google Talk, Send a chat invitation to guru@googlelabs.com or click the link "Sign in and invite myself to chat with Guru”. Works using the commands like score arsenal – Sports score, define – getting any topic definition, web Google Talk to search for Google Talk and so on. You can always ping Google Guru to enjoy faster and more helpful results.

Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office
Ever used Google Docs or wished to have a parallel processor for editing your documents, presentations or Excel files without any Document locked warning? Here is the smartest solution, Google cloud is a plug-in provided by Google which provides simultaneous access to read, write and update the same file, also generates URL for every document in your Google Docs along with revision history, offers synchronized offline editing capability. It also provides you multilingual option. 38 different languages are been supported with an ability to minimize the document. Google and Microsoft collaborated works turns out to be simply amazing.
 
Google Blogger
With over 400 million active users and half a million published posts across the globe, Google Blogger turns out to be sixth largest website in the world the previous year. Hence this year, new attractions are to be presented through out the year, the first among them is the new Interface. Integration of Google Web Toolkit, (an open source development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser based applications) for the Dashboard and editor which enables you manage your posts in a more sophisticated and modern way. Second is new content discovery mechanism that tracks multiple keywords associated in the current post you reading and list down all of them so that you can follow other websites having the same related posts.

Google Maps Navigation (beta)
The beta release for navigation and Google Maps offers real time traffic conditions to save you from the overheads of reaching late and getting embarrassed, overcoming the traffic jams by automatically instructing you with an alternate route to your destination. With an improved and more optimized routing algorithm in the beta release, it will guide you to the fastest route in account with current traffic situation, it also offers you alternate path such as using highways in place of side roads. Use Navigation or Google Maps from now on to avoid getting into road blocks and utilize your time in a better way.

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