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Five tips to get the most out of Google Buzz

How to get the most out of the Google Buzz for mobile Web application experience? Here are some tips from the company.

The social media application lets users see what is going on nearby, post a message tagged with their location and follow friends on the go.

?We're back with more ways to help you become a power buzz poster and find the most interesting buzz while you're on the go,? said Chris Nguyen, the executive responsible for product marketing for Google Mobile, Mountain View, CA, in a blog post.

?Try these five tips for the Google Buzz for mobile Web app (buzz.google.com) on your iPhone or Android 2.0+ device,? he said.

Here are the five tips that Mr. Nguyen recommended in his blog post:

Post buzz with your voice
You can post your public buzz simply by speaking it.

From the Google Mobile App for iPhone or Quick Search Box on Android, select the voice search icon, say "post buzz" followed by the text you would like to post, and watch your words appear.

Before your post is sent, you will be able to edit it or change its tagged location.

Filter the Nearby tab for a specific place
From the Nearby tab, you can easily filter buzz by a specific place, such as a sushi restaurant you are about to walk by, to only see posts from that place.

Open the menu showing nearby places, for example "Tartine Bakery and 20+ other locations nearby," and then select a specific place from the list.

Now, you will see all the public buzz anyone's ever posted from that place or you can quickly create a post that is tagged with the place.

To go back, just open the same menu and select your current location shown with the blue dot. You will once again see all the recently posted buzz around your location.

Search
As you would expect from any Google product, Google Buzz for mobile has a powerful search feature that lets you search all public buzz for topics that interest you.

Open the menu or just select the magnifying glass icon to see the search bar.

You can also search specifically for nearby posts by checking the "Search nearby" box before submitting your search (it's already checked if you are in the Nearby tab).

Now you can find out what people around you are saying about the closest pizza spot or a traffic jam.

Post from your city-level location
Tagging a post with your location is easy and adds context to your buzz posts.

Sometimes, your post isn't about a specific place or you would rather not share your exact location.
You can easily show your city-level location, so your post has a general city location tagged and will be browsable in the Nearby view and Maps Buzz layer.

When posting, just select the ">" in the location box, scroll down, and select the city-level location option.

Refresh your location
On the other hand, sometimes you really want your location to be exact.
When you visit the Nearby tab or want to tag your post with a location, Google Buzz will try to get your location using your phone's GPS.

If you are not happy with the location accuracy, you are moving, or you are just stepping outside to get a GPS signal, hit the 'refresh' icon to tell the Google Buzz web application to get your location again.

Here are some screen grabs of the application: