What is Google Talk Guru?

Google Talk Guru is a new Google bot that answers simple queries within Google talk. It responds to several commands and queries covering weather, sports, mathematical calculations, text translation, word definitions, currency conversion and even search Google all from the chat window.

Search for various syntax in the Google chat window itself

How to use Google Talk Guru?

In order to use Google Talk Guru, you first need to send an invitation to guru@googlelabs.com in Gmail Chat, Google Talk or any other Jabber client. Since, Google Talk Guru is still an experimental feature, sometimes phrases will not work or will not give you the correct information.

Let us take a look at some examples of how to use the Google Talk Guru.

If you’re looking for the weather, you could type in ‘weather london’. You use the weather command followed by a city.

Various simple commands you can use for easy search results

Is Google Talk Guru worth chatting with?

Like any other software or application in a testing phase; while Google Talk Guru may not work all the time. But it’s definitely makes it easier to search for simple equation without opening up the calculator or finding the definition to a word without pulling up a dictionary all from your chat box. Guru does answer a good variety of questions and it works right within your favorite IM app. It’s well worth adding to your friend list, especially for getting answers on the go on your mobile device of choice.

Use Google Blog Search for better and fresh search results

I first came across this simple and effective blog search engine from Google through ‘Social Media Examiner’, thanks to their fantastic list of ’12 Social media tools recommended by the pros’. Google blog search is a special Google blog search engine that indexes nothing but blogs, whether you’re looking for internet marketing tips, book reviews, sports news, recipes or anything else, it provides information in any topic.

What it’s good for?

Search results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; the blog index is continually updated, so search results are always fresh and up-to-date. You can search not just for blogs written in English but in any of the 35 specific languages using the advanced search options; also by default search results include blogs written in all languages.

Google blogs core feature is that it shows you not only how many different blogs have written about a particular topic, but also within what period of time. It also blends in some of Google’s trends prowess to show you how a story’s prominence has increased or decreased by the hour. What I like most about it is that it features the most popular stories in the blogosphere on Blog search homepage.

Getting listed in Google blog search:-

If your blog publishes a site feed, then you can set up automatic pinging for your blog or manually submit your blog for inclusion. Google periodically crawls and refreshes manually added blogs.

Google blog search is an ideal tool to explore the blogging universe more effectively; it’s never been so easy to find relevant blogs for writing ideas and to comment on.