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Look out Skype. Google’s trying to take over your part of the world, too.

Call your friend who’s sitting at home. Call your sister who’s out and about on her cell. Call your co-worker on his computer while he’s working at the office. Call them all from Gmail. It’s easy. Just download and install the Gmail Voice & Video Chat plugin right here: http://www.google.com/chat/voice/.

And here’s the sweetest part of it all: calls to the U.S. and Canada are actually free until the end of 2010 (and calls to other countries start at 2 cents per minute).

If you’d like to see Google’s clever illustrated video promoting the service, visit: http://tinyurl.com/2dgsxay (Though as the highest-rated commenter on the YouTube page so appropriately noted, “Cavemen at 1000BC? Someone skipped history class.“)