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Google Instant makes search faster by displaying not just predictions but actual search results as you type. This saves valuable time on a desktop browser, but wouldn’t it be great to have Google Instant on mobile devices, where each keystroke and page load is much slower and you frequently have just a moment to find the information you need?

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Demo Slam: Creative Google Promos

Google Creative Lab came up with a lot of a great ideas to promote Google’s products: from the brilliant Google Chrome ads to the Google Search Stories and the interactive Arcade Fire video.

This time, Google Creative Lab developed a site called Demo Slam, where users can submit tech demos for Google products. “Demo Slam is a place where boring tech demos become (hopefully) gotta-show-my-friends awesome—thanks to the creativity of Google users like you. Beginning today, you can watch Preseason Slams and declare a Champ of the week. Then each week, new featured slams will vie for your attention and a shot at demo glory,” explains Google.

Google’s promotional videos are rarely boring, but not many of them have gone viral. The most popular YouTube video about Google’s products has more than 20 million views and it’s a short introduction to Google Sky, a Google Earth feature. Other popular videos announce draggable driving directions in Google Maps, Google Earth 4.3, Street View and Google Buzz. All these videos have been embedded by Google’s sites and that’s probably the main reason why they have so many views.

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From  TechCrunch

Sick and tired of your email service, but worried that switching providers is too much of a pain? Well, Google has attempted to solve that problem for those wishing to switch to its Gmail service. The search giant on Wednesday released a new feature that lets users import their email archives and contacts into their Gmail accounts directly. It also supports message forwarding from your old account for up to thirty days. The new feature supports importing from all the important email providers, including AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail and dozens of others. The feature is currently only available for new accounts, with support for existing accounts being added over time.

Google is making this really, really easy-all you have to do is enter your other mail service’s user name and password and Gmail does all the work, importing your messages and contacts. “It’s making a once frustrating process nearly painless, and it’s going to attract new users in droves,” says TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid. – Read the whole story…