Google Talk, the new Instant Messenger

[youcan]

What are your thoughts about Google Talk, Google's Instant Messenger for chat and to speak on voice? Will it go ahead of YM, MSN, AOL.... or not?

this is a first for me. Never herd of it....

[craigcully]

I haven't heard of it either. What would the advantage be to using google's messenger when there are so many other well established messengers?

[highteknology]

i heard something about it, but what i understood was that it was not real similair to yahoo, msn, or AIM. but i may be mistaken. it seems more like a online phone service.

i don't know though. the others are alrady pretty well established so i don't see how it could be better. everybody has their own preferences anywyas.

[2.2 Straight six]

i think its gonna take a huge incentive or some amazing features before everyone switches to it.

msn has everything i need, and more. i've only used the games like twice.

[Damien]

so many people freakin' have gmail and there's no real difference? people change...

[Andee_G]

it's more like skype than AIM. i like it but no one else i know will sign up for it.

[clawhammer]

Downloaded it, but don't know anybody who is using it.

['97ventureowner]

I think Google is trying to be everything to everybody. It seems like every week they come out with something new. I heard on CNN Headline News yesterday that a beta version of their own classified ads was accidently released over the Internet, but was quickly withdrawn when the leak was discovered. I don't think I'll use it. I already have AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and ICQ and rarely use them now.

[Jonno]

Downloaded it.

Who else is using it?

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[KustmAce]

AIM works fine for me.

[jcz1987]

I'll stick with AIM.... more people have it at the moment...

[ThatRoundHeadedKid]

what's next.......a Google Internet Browsing Application? Like AOL has AOL Explorer?? Then what......world domination? Google is like, becoming a huge empire

[ghostrx7]

ya, i got aim and yahoo messenger, why would u need more?

[ThatRoundHeadedKid]

Also, if you were curious to where "Google" came from, I kinda assumed and I'm pretty sure it comes from the number "googol," which is 1.0 × 10 to the 100th power, meaning it's 1 followed by 100 zeros. If you see the relation of how Google has over a hundred million, if not billion webpages available to be searched. So, nothing technically has ever reached to such quantities of "googol" so it's basically an impossible number to reach, so Google's theme with the word is that they're capable of having an out of this world number of webpages to search......kind get where I'm going?