Google recently unveiled its free live Sat-Nav for mobiles. This thing will give free real time, directions between different destinations to users on their mobile phones. Motorola’s Droid is the first device that is going to have this service. The Google Maps Navigation combines various services that have a search engine for finding addresses and Google Street View for viewing photos of the locations. This also includes live traffic stats for users to avoid traffic jams.

Other features include searching in plain English, searching by voice commands, search along the route you’re already on, Satellite view and the Street view. All this for free? This is good news but what will happen to Garmin’s live service or even Tom Tom’s paid services that cost dollars to maintain?

There’s news on the music front also, thanks to Google again. Search results in the US include links to audio previews of the artists albums and songs. Also included are the links to purchase music from Lala or MySpace. If you need to trace songs by lyrics alone this can now be done since Google has teamed up with Gracenote to provide such services.  Plans are underway to offer this facility for other regions as well, however, no time lines have been given. In some cases users might be able to listen to clips of tracks or even complete tracks.

On the social networking front Google has introduced Google Social Search (presently in Google labs only). This will enable users to find social content on the web that is relevant to them. Presently is an experimental stage this service uses Google profile contacts, Gmail contacts and feeds from Google Reader to make a “social circle for the users. data from other services like Twitter, Face Book and Picasa will also be logged and put in that circle. Privacy issues aside this is poised to be a good service.

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