If you’re a fan of Google Voice then you’ve probably set up a number of different filters, greetings and the like. What you probably haven’t done is gather all of the data that has been acquired via Google Voice, primarily because it wan’t avaialable to you. Starting today, that changes, according toa poston the Data Liberation Blog at Google. …”your data — from call history, to voicemail (including transcripts!), to greetings and recordings — is now available in Google Takeout....

Acommoncomplaintabout Google of late has been the increasing amounts of spam blogs and content scrapers that have been making their way into search results. Now Google has tweaked its algorithm in a move aimed at giving original content more priority. Writing on his personal blog today, the head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cuttswritesthat a change to the search algorithm means that “Searchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content rather than a site that scraped or copied the original site’s content....

If you’re a business owner and you’ve not yet taken advantage of Google Places, you’re missing out on a great resource. While we’re aware that Google has taken some interior shots of businesses in the past what was just announced today is yet another fantastic advantage for Places-listed businesses. Google’s Business Photosis a lot like Street View, but inside of the business. You’ll get panoramic, 360-degree photos of Places businesses and there’s so far no cost involved for the owner....

Geotagging your photos can be a really useful way of keeping track of where they were taken. It’s a simple task with most mobile phones as they’re location-aware, but adding geodata to photos taken with most ‘normal’ cameras is usually a case of manually dragging them onto a map with your favourite photo library software – a real pain if you have a lot of images to tag. Now Google hasmashed togethertwo of its less well-known services,PanaramioandLatitude, to make the process a lot easier, albeit with a couple of caveats....

Today Google announced on theOfficial Google Mobile Blogthat it is launching Google Talk with video and voice chat for Android phones. Whether your Google Talk contacts are on any compatible Android tablet or phone, or happen to be using Gmail with Google Talk on their computer, you can now video or voice chat with them right from your Android phone. Calls can be made over a 3G or 4G data network (if your carrier supports it) or over Wi-Fi....