Offline Use Now Part of Everybody’s Gmail

Gmail's offline feature has graduated from Gmail Labs, and is now a full-blown feature of Google's email service. The feature emerged as a lab experiment nearly a year ago, but it has now been deemed ready for primetime.

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Google the World from Your Phone By Taking Pictures

Google has introduced a very cool new feature for android devices, called Google Goggles. The feature is just a "labs" experiment at this point, but it can already do some very interesting things, and has the potential to do much more. The official description is as follows:

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New Google Maps for Android Gets Experimental

Google released Google Maps 3.3 for Android today, which lets users find nearby businesses, try new experimental "Labs" projects, and report problems with map data from their phone. Users can check to see what businesses are nearby at anytime, by simply long-pressing on the map, tapping the bubble, and going to the option that says "What's Nearby?". Users will get a menu that shows a…

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Optimizing for Mixed Media Search Results

As Google's search engine competitors often bring up, searchers want more than just "ten blue links" these days. Of course it has been quite a while now since search results from any of the big three were only ten blue links for most searches. We are well into the era of blended search.

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