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Google offers new service called Google Talk

Posted on August 24, 2005, 2:53 pm EST

"They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world"

What an exciting program, google continues expanding free service for almost every aspect. Although it is still in beta, I tried it and was very impressed at the first look. Adding a user was simple as 1 2 3. Recieving a phone call was very life-like. The Quality between the both users was clear and excellent.

On my P4 1.8 GHZ machine, it ran with only 4mb of memory while msn ran at 20+mb of RAM. The installation was instant! After 10 seconds it was ready to function.

There are many services out there which already exist for example Skype, which has over 50 million registered users and Google said it will be a competitor of Skpe. OUCH. Google said the appeal of its system would come from its voice quality, based on audio technology it has developed. But I believe in the future google will allow us to contact oversees from pc to phone for free. Yikes, I hope so. Google did so much for us, from Google Earth to the classic and most loved Google Search. Google is now officially a verb, since many people use it in their daily lives :)

I hope they put alot of work in google talk, I hope they can integrate other IM Clients into it as well :)

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