Google Buzz, the newest product that Google pushed into the social media space has really created a buzz recently. For the users of Google’s email service, i.e. GMail, they now can start using Buzz within GMail with a one-click button, and all the powerful features offered by Google Buzz are available in their profiles.

Once you log into GMail, you’ll notice that there is a tab under Inbox, and labeled as “Buzz”. From there, you can set up your Google Profile (with your GMail username as the custom Google Profile username) and start using it the first time by importing photos from your Picasa or Flickr accounts and share the photo albums to your Buzz account.

From a user perspective, Google Buzz is user friendly and easy to use. You can post updates on Google Buzz, insert URL link or photo, and clearly this is a lot like Twitter and Facebook. For each new update (Google called it Buzz), there are public and private settings so that you have the options to send the Buzz to everyone or a specific contact group. Meanwhile Google also want to make sure your followers will participate to your publicly available Buzz, and thus the comment and like, or un-like features are built underneath each of the Buzz. Notable mentions also go to the real-time feature of Buzz; once you send a Buzz, it will instantly show on your Google Profile.

Besides, it’s also important to note that Google Buzz is available via mobile phones in several ways: from Buzz.google.com, Buzz on Google Maps for mobile, Buzz Shortcut from Google.com and Voice Shortcut, which is available in the quick search widget on Android and in Google Mobile App on iPhone.

Meanwhile, there are questions on how should we use Google Buzz to a maximum level. Simply joining Google Buzz, create an account, and following few people as well as sending some Buzz clearly isn’t much different from using the most popular social sites such as Facebook or Twitter. But linking Buzz to millions of GMail users has successfully brought this newly launched social site to a greater height. To date, Buzz simply gained tens of millions of users, mostly thanks to GMail’s loyalty users as the integration of Buzz with Gmail is part of its appeal.

Yet, we tend to think that most of the existing Buzz users like Twitter. And Twitter is officially supported by Buzz, the same is true of Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader and many more to come (but not Facebook). Apparently, most Buzz users are using Google Buzz to import their tweets as a way to send latest updates to their followers. However, it also mean that people are still spending their time on Twitter and on the other hand, Google Buzz currently does not offer any feature that’s so great which well incentivize people to leave behind Twitter, not to mention Facebook and start it over again with a new social site. Ultimately, it takes time to build a totally new strong followers on a new social site.

Nevertheless, if Google Buzz can keep up the momentum and building its own user base day by day across the Web, it’s no doubt that everyone from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies will build their Google Profiles on Buzz as a brand while paying attention to the conversations happening on Buzz.

There are a lot of times when typing a document and I realize that I had a similar document sit well on my computer or I came across a similar document before and I want to google it on the Web. Normally, I will open my browser or perform a tedious run and search the document on my computer thoroughly.

Now you don’t do this anymore, if you had installed Google Desktop. Perhaps you want an even light-weight version of a search tool offered by Google, you can check out this Google Quick Search Box.

Google Quick Search Box is now labeled as open source search box which mean users can download it from Google Code whenever they want. Though it’s offered as free, it is an impressively robust due to the search can reach filename, Web pages, address book, just to name a few. What’s more, it is well integrate with Google accounts and Twitter at this moment, and no doubt GMail integration will be included in the future development of this tool.

Right now, one question you probably will ask is: Google Quick Search Box is better than Google Desktop or vice versa? While everyone has their own preferences, but time will tell since Google Quick Search Box is currently only supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Most recently, Google has launched a new service which enables its users to create a public profile that can be found by typing “me” across the Google platform in the U.S. Clearly, with this new service, i.e. Google Profiles, this was not the only way we learn to search on Google, but also a way to by-pass some social sites to scour for some people that we wanted to connect to them individually.

On Google Profiles, you can build up a brief public Google Profile by using your Google account. Nevertheless, as far as content is concerned, you are allowed to fill up the basic background about yourself, such as where you grew up, the places that you’ve lived, companies worked for, etc. akin to something like your short bio. You also can add photos to your public profile by import your photos that are available from Picasa or Flickr. In addition to that, your other sites’ URL can be shared there as a way to promote your own sites, blogs, or your Twitter page.

But a bit googling on some examples of the Google Profiles found that some profiles have been verified, but some are not. I guess this is a way that Google used to dig out some fake profiles, to order to protect the site integrity.

Computer keyboards are indispensable, no doubt about it. However, if you say you want to search on the Web solely rely on keyboard, and use it like the steering steels and without any touch on your mouse, you’ll need this newly launched home page called Keyboardr.

Keyboardr was built by Julius Eckert from Cologne, Germany. It is a part-time project that initially served as a future version of a project he worked with his friends called Chosr. While the site look like a 90’s home page, it’s intend to help you gain a different Internet experience, and keeping your fingers on the keyboard, and eventually throw away your mouse.

To try it, you can type a simple keyword on the search bar. And whenever the keyword is, the Google Web and blog results shall always appeared in the left-hand side, and the right-hand side, you’ll find Keyboardr is aggregating the results from Wikipedia, YouTube, and Google Images. To navigate the search results, you don’t need to learn a new set of Keyboardr’s own keyboard shortcuts, just move the arrow key with the direction of up-down-left-right, and it’s go. To open any search result or view the full lists of a particular Web service, simply press Enter.

I can’t say it’s a sort of meta search engine, as its presented, will integrate more popular Web services such as FriendFeed, Twitter, Flickr, and many more to the Keyboardr. Think of it as a home page with search capability among all the favorite Web services, though it only displays a handful of search results on the front page.

Greenseng is not just a search engine. It describes itself in which it is different from any other ordinary search engine, but a search engine that goes green. Perhaps you’ll ask, “Do we really need a green search engine?” To promote a green lifestyle while we conducting search on the Web from a green point of view, we do really need a green search engine.

In fact, Greenseng was powered by CO2Stats, a company that helps in making Web sites green. CO2Stats was owned by Enernetics, Inc. and Enernetics was a company that co-founded by Alex Wissner-Gross and Timothy M. Sullivan in October 2007, a Y Combinator-funded technology firm. Its strongest appeal for the users is that it is a green certified site since it is powered by CO2Stats, and while users using Greenseng in searching on the Web, it will helps them to offset the carbon emissions through CO2Stats.

When you’re conducting search on Greenseng, the search results are powered by Google search, and at the bottom of every page, there’s a small and tiny Green Certified Site logo that will list the total CO2 emissions of your search.

Although Greenseng is only covered the Web search at this moment, I’m glad to see that it is a good solution for Internet users for minimizing the global warming effect when searching on the Web. As a result, when using it more and more, we’re ensure that we’ll live in a more greener lifestyle.

Searchcube, a project of Symmetri that built on Google AJAX Search API, now has options to create an unique, three-dimensional cube interface of your search results that fetched from Google. Each time you enter a query, and the search results to be shown are add up to thirty-two (32) results per cube, and since it renders a three-dimension cube interface, the maximum total number of results return is ninety-six (96) results.

Searchcube’s primary aim for users is search in graphical format, and the results show up on the Web browser is in a visually attractive, and appealing 3D fashion. The search results rendered is a mashup from several third-party programming tools, such as thumbshots.org, Sandy 3D Engine Actionscript library and Tweener Actionscript library. Each tool is deployed for a specific purpose, respectively.

This type of 3D display is becoming quite popular nowadays, mainly because it allows you to sift through stacks of search results. With a simple mouse or keyboard click, you can flip cube, drag and rotate or turn the cube, and etc. You also can mouse hover to one of the results; a brief information about that particular result will be shown in your right-hand side of the Web browser, see example below.