I came across this “potentially exciting” announcement in Mashable today.  After all, anything from Google is worth at least a look, particularly as it was seen (in the comments) as akin to Aardvark.

So, I tried it.

But, it only works through Google Talk which only works in Windows. As the title of this blog suggests, I’m not a big Windows user.

However, I do have it on one computer. So, I installed Google Talk which is very easy. Then I sent a chat invitation to guru@googlelabs.com and got set up to use Google Talk Guru.

After about 10 minutes using it, I knew I was never going to use this. First, there’s basically no new information available here. Nearly everything can be more conveniently obtained by simply typing a query in the Google Search Bar.

I also tried the translate command but found it to be very limited, in the Portuguese language at least which is what I used. About half the words I tried to translate from English gave me “Sorry, no results”.

In summary, I would have expected something better from Google but maybe it’ll be expanded.

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