Google has released a new service known as Google Voice which provides a single phone number that will represent all of your other numbers, such as your cell phone, home phone, and work phone. Currently this service is available through invitation only, remember when Google initially launched Google mail, I remember how crazy we were in order to get invitation for Gmail. And once we got invitations people request me for invitations which makes me feel proud. Google Voice is a new, free service the company will be offering the public. Currently the service is in closed beta and only available to a select few.

Some of the Features of this Service are
• Call screening – Announce and screen callers
• Listen in – Listen before taking a call
• Block calls – Keep unwanted callers at bay
• SMS – Send, receive, and store SMS
• Place calls – Call free within the continental US and to Canada
• Taking calls – Answer on any of your phones
• Phone routing – Phones ring based on who calls
• Forwarding phones – Add phones and decide which ring
• Voicemail transcripts – Read what your voicemail says
• Listen to voicemail – Check online or from your phone
• Notifications – Receive voicemails via email or SMS
• Personalize greeting – Vary greetings by caller
• Share voicemail – Forward or download voicemails
• Conference calling – Join people into a single call
• Call record – Record calls and store them online
• Call switch – Switch phones during a call
• Mobile apps – Try our apps for Blackberry and Android phones
• Mobile site – View your inbox from your mobile
• GOOG-411 – Check directory assistance
• Manage groups – Set preferences by group.

Seems to be interesting … a phone umber that you can use to redirect incoming calls to whatever phone you’re using. But Google Voice is currently available by invite only.So  Get an Invite

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Google Squared. You can type in any search and this Google Lab (scheduled to launch later this month) will try to build a useful “Square” that you can save. Google Squared can be as fun as Google Maps–you can easily spend an hour just typing in random things to see what Google can do for that search.

Rich Snippets. This is also an amazing tool and this one is destined to be a favorite for webmasters. Essentially, you use some open standards (RDFa and microformats in the initial launch) to add some additional markup to your web pages. The markup is pretty simple and you don’t need to register with Google. Then when Google thinks it will help users, shows a “rich snippet” that has more information than a typical search snippet.

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Google has recently introduced various Search Options knows as Google Search Options. Try searching if you haven’t noticed the changes in Google Search User Interface. I am going to explain you all what these options are and what they do !

1. All results – This is same as previous where we can search Videos,
Forums & Reviews. This is really handy if what you not get what you are looking on Google.

2. Any time – This is latest development where you can search for option like Recent results, Past 24 hours, Past week & Past year results.
you can get fresh content if you use either recent results and Past 24 hours results.

3. Standard results – Here you can search for either “Images from the page” and “More text” options.

images from page

4. Standard view – See the results in altogether different look with Related searches, Wonder wheel and Timeline.

Related Searches

You can use a tool called “Wonder Wheel” to explore searches and see the results update as you click.

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Google on 7th May announced that Google Profile results will now appear in Google US. name-query search pages. Having a profile on Google means appearing in Google when ever some one searches for you on Google. Your profile may include online photos, links to your blog or other online profiles, and ways for people to contact you — and you can restrict contact information like your address and phone number to only the people and groups you choose.

When creating a profile, you have the option to use your Gmail username as a your profile URL (profiles.google.com/yourusername), so it’s easier to remember and share. Some examples:

http://profiles.google.com/mattcutts

Don’t have a profile? Go to www.google.com/profiles to get started.

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An hCard, similar to a vCard, uses XHTML to allow search engines and other bots to decipher between a random text passage on a website and an address, phone number, website, etc. by simply adding a few extra attributes to a websites XHTML. Since addresses appear all over the web without any unifying structure, this works to tie them all together with one consistent syntax. By using a consistent syntax, tools such as Google Maps’ API can pick up on these things much easier, while still providing useful markup that humans can read and understand easily.

So why should you start using the hCard format? Like most SEO best practices – for the limited amount of time needed to make the necessary changes and the possibility of future adaptation and acceptance, it can’t hurt.

To make your own hCard today, use the hCard creator. Make sure to note the warnings on the page as well.

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HCards are supposed to be the web page equivilant of VCards for email. They are supposed to provide properly tagged information that can be read by spiders, crawlers, browsers, toolbars or a myriad of other devices.

Here’s an example of a name and address with the proper HCard formatting tags:

its a simple address ? but the real magic is behind the code

<div id="hcard-Jasom-Smith" class="vcard"><span class="given-name">Jason</span> <span class="family-name">Smith</span>
Some Corporation LLC<a class="email" href="mailto:jason@gmail.com"> </a></div>
<div class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jason@gmail.com">jason@gmail.com</a></div>
<div id="hcard-Jason-Smith" class="vcard">
<div class="adr">
<div class="street-address">123 Main Street<span class="locality"> Mountain View</span>, <span class="region">CA</span>, <span class="postal-code">94043</span>
<span class="country-name">United States</span></div>
</div>
<div class="tel">650-555-1212</div>
</div>

You can see each of the elements has a class applied to it like “street-address”, “tel”, “given-name” and it all sits inside of a big “vcard” div class. These names are standardized. Stick with the standard names and anyone who builds an HCard reader into any of their tools will able to parse your data. If you want to see a full list of all the HCard tags I suggest using the HCard tool to build a sample and copying those tags.

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Did you ever searched for your name on Google? And always being disappointed on seeing the results? Especially when your name is so popular that many results appear from Google Magic Box and some one else dominate the results. Ever looked for someone else and been disappointed that you couldn’t find the person you wanted? Then Good News for you folks!! Google’s new “Profile Results” launched few days ago with an aim to correct both your above problems.Google has allowed people to create Google Profile pages for use with certain Google services. For example, if you created content in Google Maps, your Google Profile let you share who you were with others using that service. The same profile also served to identify you when using the completely different Google Reader service.

Now Google Profiles are being promoted as a way for people to tell the world who they are and, to some degree, being offered as a way for people to claim their identity in Google’s main search results.

“People have no control over how they appear when other people search for them on Google. That’s a big issue we’ve heard,” said Joe Kraus, a director of product management at Google. “The new results are to better control what people see and improve the ability for people to fine what they’re looking for.”

In the new system, a new “Profile results” section will appear at the bottom of a Google search page, when it finds a strong match in response to a name-based search. Up to four profiles will be shown. So start for profiles here.

Building Your Profile Page

In order to have to appear in Google’s Profile page you have got to have a page. That’s very easy. There’s no charge to have that page, and you needn’t use any particular Google services, either, Just sign-up here. You can also search for other profiles on Google, and if you’re signed-in, you’ll see an option promoting how to make your own profile.

After signing-up, you can provide a variety of information about yourself, including:

* Your picture
* Your first and/or last name
* Nickname
* Where you grew up
* Where you live
* Where you work
* Schools you’ve attended
* A biography
* Links to web sites you wish to list
* Pictures from your Picasa, Flickr or other online photo albums
* Contact information, which can be shared selectively with people

Not all of these options were offered when Profile pages were first launched. The pages have gained more features over time, and the new additions have been pretty poorly communicated.

The new system will cause many people to reexamine their profiles, as they hope to appear in Google’s main results. But with only four spaces, some names will be competitive. Which ones will show? Those that Google feels are “comprehensive enough,” Kraus said.

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