Google Extends the Free calls for Gmail Users

One of the features of Gmail that is all too often swept under the bus and beyond about is the aptitude to call any phone using Google Voice for free. Of course, this only related for users in the US and Canada, but it are a splendid feature nevertheless, and one that users should most positively take benefit of.

Well, Gmail users will be competent to use the repair to make free domestic voice calls for another year, as Google has just declared that is expand the use of the service through all of 2013.

To use the characteristic in Gmail, simply pop out the chat menu and you will see a small icon that looks approximating a phone handset. Click this icon, and you will be proficient to dial any domestic phone number and make a call, just like you were with a definite phone.

If you want to make calls that are not inside your domestic province using Google Voice although Gmail you can, but it will not be free. Charge for international calls start off as low as $.02 per minute, depending on where you need to call. Overall, the rates are quite sensible, and if you only need to formulate domestic calls, the price of free is concerning as good as it gets.

This is the first time Google has extensive the free calling period of Google Voice for Gmail client. The service first debuted in 2010, and every year since Google has proclaimed that it is expanding the free period through the next year. Will they always modify? Only time will tell, but for the time creature, you can definitely like making free calls, as long you exist in the US or Canada.

Google Updated Pedometer Card Apps

Google’s clever search app, Google Now, for Android smart phones and tablets now comprise an intelligent pedometer app that tracks your space and knows how far you’ve walked. The efficient card should automatically start appearing on Android devices running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or afterward and joins cards for weather, nearby restaurant suggestions, and other connected search cards. 

According to Google, the space walked is intended using periodic place information that’s being sent to and stored via Google. The card comprise information for users who travel by walking, bicycling or via other modes of transport. 

Google Now’s latest adding may help Smartphone users stay more vigorous and matches the features of Nike+ addition on Apple’s iPhone, which tracks action based on the accelerometer. 

Google Now is intended to be a hyper-personal look for tool for Smartphone proprietor that provide clever reference through a variety of cards based on location, search history, and past Internet usage performance.

It’s meant to be a Siri participant and a helper that learns your behaviors and adapts to you. Google Now is an addition of Google voice search and is a feature that debuted on Android 4.1. Since Jelly Bean, Google has sustained to provide episodic updates to Google Now to enhance and supplement its features set.

Google Latest Searching Updates for Page Quality and Ranking

Google’s most recent repayment of their search quality places of interest is out, inventory more than 65 changes to the search algorithm from August and September. Most are definitely minor, a few stand out, and a combine major changes we know about seem to be absent completely. Specifically, there is nary a word about the accurate match domain update Google warned of on September 27. Why is this?

"These changes rolled out very recently, and their commence language was accepted after the cutoff date where we were finalize the blog post," a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Watch. "We tweeted these changes and were also scheduling to contain those launches in future updates."

 We know for confident a Panda update occurred on September 27. We also know there was a Panda data invigorate Sept. 18, however Google announce that one via Twitter.

 Maybe this September change entry applies to Panda: “#84394. [project 'Page Quality'] This begin helped you discover more high-quality content from trusted sources.”

Google has filed algorithm changes related to Panda and Penguin under the “Page Quality” development in the past, as they did in May of this year. It’s indistinct, but this access may very well refer to the September 18th or 27th Panda update.

Keep in mind, Matt Cutts’ tweet from September 28 said the EMD update was “upcoming.” Some consider it happened September 27 or 28, however they could very well have erroneous it for Panda.

To my information, there has been no executive verification the EMD update came out at the time of Cutts’ tweet. We’ve asked Cutts for illumination and will update the post if we hear back.