Real-Time Video Help Is Just a Click Away, as Google Introduces Helpouts

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Google just wants to help out. Right?

The company is launching Helpouts, a live video-chat network of more than 1,000 experts on subjects like technology, fitness, beauty, nutrition, home repair and maintenance, music, cooking and more. These experts—selected through a screening process—set their own prices, and provide users with individualized advice and assistance. Google calls it "real help from real people in real time." (This is different, by the way, from Google Hangouts, which also involve video chatting, though I've never met anyone the least bit helpful there.)

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