In an effort to resolve the scheduling conflicts that inevitably arise when busy people try to get together, Google plans to introduce a new Google Calendar Labs experiment called Smart Rescheduler that treats scheduling as search problem.

When presented with a Google Calendar event, Smart Rescheduler will scour the schedules of participants who have made their availability public for conflicts and will weigh other factors like meeting room availability to generate a list of the best possible meeting times.

By investigating everyone's calendars, Google Calendar can make some educated guesses about how easy it might be to reschedule a conflicting meeting and even find you a replacement conference room nearby," explains Google engineer David Marmaros in a blog post. "You can refine the results by marking people as optional, changing the meeting duration, ignoring certain conflicts, or specifying the earliest and latest times you'll accept. The results will immediately update to reflect your new requirements."

Meeting organizers may want to be discreet in marking people as optional, a designation that can be hard on the ego.