Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Google introduces Google Video Chat

Well the time has finally arrived. Google has done it. We now have Video Chat for all Google users.

Google Inc. Tuesday introduced Gmail voice and video chat, which lets users have free voice and video conversations. Also, the company launched a free web service Google Flu Trends, providing up-to-date influenza-related activity estimates for each of the 50 states in the U.S, even though all the experts usually get the wrong strain for the year.

In order to make use of the voice and video chat, just click on the new "Video & more" menu in a Gmail chat window and find "Start video chat" or "Start voice chat." Voice conversations can be had alongside email and regular chat without a webcam.

Google Flu Trends, built with the help of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was established after finding that a lot of search queries tend to be common during flu season each year. Google found that that there is a close relationship between the frequency of these search queries and the number of people who are experiencing flu-like symptoms each week.

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