Google IM & Google Talk

[quasi-modo]

Oh yes they would.

It's a trap.

If they do that it would be poor marketing for a company like Google that has multiple products.

I would know. I am in Marketing Development.

I was trying to be funny....

[hismajesty]

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[Spht]

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[Networks]

I think this is google's belated attempt to rule the world that's already been conquered. That clean interface will only hold so long because you know damn well there will be ads, that's one of the major methods through which it earns revenue I believe. It's basically the same way hotmail does their messanger (by email). My two cents: I think it's a cheap and crappy attempt to do what's been done to death, the email service is great, the IM service is shit. I wish google good luck in even earning 1/4 of the users AIM has, truth is people don't like change.

[hismajesty]

I think they're relasing it to boost popularity for their second public offering, considering the losses Google has suffered in the last month ($30 or so from its peak.)

Oh, also Yahoo is doing VoIP, so of course Google has to do that to keep up with compeition. The 4 billion 2nd offering might be for them to buy Skype or maybe Baidu. Probably the former.

[Archonist]

Google just wants to keep up and be better than yahoo at all times, being their major competetition. Google IM will never have the support that AIM has, it's been around too long and is just too good.

[Invert]

A lot of you misunderstand what Google does and why it's so successful. The people at Google do not invent or create things, they just make them better. When the IM goes public I have no doubts in my mind that it will be better than any other IM out there. Just like all the other things that Google made that is now public. The consumers should thank Google for doing what it does, they force competition and if you have taken a basic business class you know that competition is always a good thing for the end user. For example if Google did not set the bar so high for how much space you should get with your free e-mail account Microsoft and Yahoo would have never budged on the limit they had once before for their free e-mail account.

[Ender]

I just got Google Talk, google's IM client. Unfortunately, not many of my friend's use gmail/google talk. Can any of you who have the client post your gmail accounts here?

[Yegg]

I just got Google Talk, google's IM client. Unfortunately, not many of my friend's use gmail/google talk. Can any of you who have the client post your gmail accounts here?

Just use a more mainstream instant messenger. Do you expect many of us to give you our accounts just so you can talk with us?

[CrAz3D]

I looked @ it, but then decided that there are too many IM clients now

[Ender]

I just got Google Talk, google's IM client. Unfortunately, not many of my friend's use gmail/google talk. Can any of you who have the client post your gmail accounts here?

Just use a more mainstream instant messenger. Do you expect many of us to give you our accounts just so you can talk with us?

Hm, so I see you're not a friendly person...
And btw, Gaim or w/e clients you use right now were once not mainstream.

[Spht]

http://forum.valhallalegends.com/index.php?topic=12602.0

[iago]

My biggest problem with Google Talk is that it's too Big-Brothery.  I hate the feeling that Google is constantly spying on me, my searches is enough for me

[Ender]

http://forum.valhallalegends.com/index.php?topic=12602.0

Sorry, my bad.

My biggest problem with Google Talk is that it's too Big-Brothery. I hate the feeling that Google is constantly spying on me, my searches is enough for me

Yeah, I found Google's desktop searcher to be a bit intrusive. But I love gmail, so I'm willing to give Google's IM a try.

EDIT:
LOL, now that I posted in the Google IM thread, my thread and that thread are right next to eachother, makes me look so bad... my apologies

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