Yep, Google Is Doing IM and VoIP

i think that google talk is great the only problem is that most of my friends use yahoo messenger or msn messenger so google needs to have some more features like the emoticons and things of that nature that everyone enjoys so that people will have a reason to change to google talk

I still think Skype is better and MSN Messenger is the best for IM. This just seems too simple.

I do like it, it can roll up all the chat message, and the connection is fast compare with msn.

Perhaps it should improve with a better smilies/emoticons.

This is only the first day of Public release of Google Talk. Please do not expect much of it.

I really believe that google talk will improve in no time same as the Google Gmail service.

Go go google

they need to make it so you can use it if you do not have a gmail acount like the rest of them do before i will even think about useing it

Google Talk really stinks. Granted it's a beta, but even for a beta it stinks.

I'm getting so tired of hearing about Google this and Google that.

Google used to be a search engine company. Remember?

Now that it has to answer to Wall St. it seems to be 101 different things. It seems more interested in maintaining investor Buzz than delivering better search.

I think it's time people started comparing Google search with other competitors and see if it's loosing its edge.

To be honest.. Google still seems to be the best at search.. but how long can Google deviate from its core before becoming the next AltaVista of search engines.. Poor AltaVista.. I loved you.. :(

Enough rambling..

What's next a Google Bubble Gum?

Signed,

NoOne

yay, yet another chat program to install.

This is the first relaese if Google talk. If you read the pages of "start" and "about" you will find that they plan to have an interface that will work with other IM's
I have to say I was a little dissapointed with the IM at first but then I used the call feutture. My husband was in Japan and I was able to talk to him with great clarity and no delay. It was wonderful. So I will patiently await the newer realeases when they come out. Like others I am waiting for the day that I find an IM that I love and only need one of them on my desktop instead of a couple. Seeing Gmail and Google Desktop Evolve I can't even guess all the features they may add.

This is the first relaese if Google talk. If you read the pages of "start" and "about" you will find that they plan to have an interface that will work with other IM's
I have to say I was a little dissapointed with the IM at first but then I used the call feutture. My husband was in Japan and I was able to talk to him with great clarity and no delay. It was wonderful. So I will patiently await the newer realeases when they come out. Like others I am waiting for the day that I find an IM that I love and only need one of them on my desktop instead of a couple. Seeing Gmail and Google Desktop Evolve I can't even guess all the features they may add.

OBTW Google gum does exist.

years back when I started using MSN ymessenger you needed to know all the codes for colors and emotions which meant alot more key strokes. Now you have all that at your finger tips. So just wait things will evolve for the better

YACC (Yet Another Chat Client).

Unless this has some compelling community-based feature beyond simple IM chat, why on earth is anyone going to use it? Google is pretty naive if they think that Yahoo! et al will be interested in opening their networks for Google's exploitation as a network-based equivalent of Trillian (which is what Jabber was originally intended to be) by federating IM identity. If YahOo! and MSN and AOL couldn't agree to open their networks to each other, why should they want to do the same to GoOgle?