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Gmail's "Priority Inbox" will sort your e-mail



What do you feel when you open your e-mail and find hundreds of messages of varying importance? Some of them are automated reminders from your favorite sites, some are newsletters you have subscribed to, and some are actually from real people trying to contact you, and so on.

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Google's Realtime Search Update



Now you can change Google.com as your homepage, because switching to Google Realtime Search lets you see up-to-the-second social updates from Twitter / Facebook, breaking news articles and buzzing blog posts about hot topics around the world.

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New Gmail Phone Calls Feature Being Tested



Google is moving forward and is now testing a phone call feature in Gmail. There have been some rumors about this and it has been told that Google wanted to offer a web app instead of a desktop client. It is unclear whether the new feature would be an extension of Google Voice or an entirely new offering.

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Google Tests New Search As You Type Feature

Google tests a new search interface that updates the results as you type a query. According to this experiment, you don't have to press Enter or click on the «Search» button to see the results because Google continually gives you the results for your query.

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Universal Search for Gmail, Docs and Sites



The new Google’s «Apps Search» enables users to search for files or snippets of text regardless if they're attached to emails or stored in Google Docs. When activated, if you search through your account, it will display the 20 most recent relevant emails as well as the 20 most related Google Docs or Sites, displayed below the Gmail search results.

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Google Officially Acquires Jambool

Earlier this week it was announced that Jambool and their Social Gold virtual currency platform had been acquired by Google. Jambool founders Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussien have just confirmed the deal on their company blog.

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Oracle has filed suit against Google

Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying that it has filed suit against Google for encroaching on copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems earlier this year.

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Google Launched Updated Contacts Manager for Gmail

Google has just launched an improved interface for Gmail and an upgrade to the Gmail Contacts application. The updated Gmail interface now features three separate links for Mail, Contacts and Tasks at the top of the left sidebar, while the «compose mail» and «add contact» buttons are placed below these links.

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Google Wave

According to a blog post this afternoon, Google says they “don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product,” though the code for it will remain available as open source.

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New G-mail Drag-and-Drop Feature for Saving the File Attachments

Google has added a new feature to Gmail: the ability to save file attachments by simply dragging-and-dropping them onto the desktop. So now saving dozens of e-mail file attachments to your computer just became much easier. Also, Gmail has improved their support for Google Calendar with a new Invitation feature.

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