It’s a busy time for the Chrome OS, what with getting ready for release, working on touch capabilities for later on, and constantly updating security features. There’s now a new product to Beta test called ‘Google Guru.’ It’s Google’s automated answering machine for those quick questions you need answers to rather than performing a web wide search.

While it’s by no means an earth-shattering addition, it is definitely something to check out while we wait for the release of the Chome OS.

To use Guru just follow these instructions:

1. Sign in to Google Talk
2. Send a chat invitation to: guru@googlelabs.com
3. Find guru in your contact list and send a chat query to guru with one of the following messages below:

Sports scores: score lakers
Weather: weather location // note, anything from Zip Codes to city names works for the location field
Calculate: 123*45
Currency: 100$ to Pound
Definition: define word
Translation: translate word to French
Web result: web search
Help: help translate