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Google is making it even easier to chat with people you have relationships with. The search engine recently added another feature to Google+; you can now use Google Chat to talk to anyone in your Circles who has added you to their Circles. Prior to this new feature, users would have needed to know the person’s email address before adding them on Chat.

When you’re not using Google+, you’ll still be able to use Chat to talk to people in your Circles using other Google products like Gmail, Google Talk, iGoogle, Orkut and 3rd party apps. One other change to Google Chat is that instead of displaying all of your contacts in your Google+ Chat list, Google will be displaying contacts from your most recent conversations that are online at that moment.

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Google+ Adds Mutual Circle Chat
Now Google Chat users no longer need someone’s email to chat with them on Google+. On Google+, you can now chat with anyone who is in your circles who also has you in their circles.

comScore Releases October 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
A leader in measuring the digital world, comScore, released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.

Yahoo Site Explorer Closing Down Monday, November 21
Yahoo is officialy closing down Yahoo Site Explorer as of today, November 21, 2011.

Google+ Pages Give the Social Network Another Big Traffic Push
According to a report from Experian Hitwise, Google+ received a massive push last week. The site received 5% more traffic than the previous week and 25% more than the same week in October due to the announcement of Google+ Pages.

Google Launches Music Store, Artist Hub and More
Google recently unveiled its Google Music program which offers several new music features for consumers and artists.

According to Mashable, Google+ just launched Trending Topics Thursday night, November 18. It’s similar to Twitter’s Trending Topics and includes 10 of the hottest and most popular discussion items on the social network. When a user clicks on one of the topics, a search query is launched and posts about the topic by other users on Google+ are displayed.

In addition to adding Trending Topics, Google also made some changes regarding Google+ Search. Users can search the entire Google+ network, within their circles or within their own posts.

Trending topics helped Twitter become the place where people turned to find out what others were talking about at any point in time. Now with Google+ jumping on the Bandwagon, does Twitter have to watch its back?

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This screenshot shows Google+'s new Trending Topics.