Expanding further beyond its core search engine and into Web portal territory , Google on Wednesday present Google Talk , an crying messaging ( IM ) service with spokesperson communicating capacity that ’s also compatible with several Mac client applications programme , including iChat 3.0 .
Many industry observers have said that Google call for to build up an armory of Web portal services because users are n’t very fast to search engines . However , user are loyal to Web portal service such as exigent messaging , photograph sharing and Web post because they offer ways to intercommunicate with others . And in the retiring twelvemonth , Yahoo , Microsoft , and AOL have aggressively ventured into the search quad , Google ’s traditional stomping ground .
Google Talk is built on the open XMPP ( Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ) model maintained by theJabber Software Foundationand used in numerous chat clients . The system is currently in test , or beta , modality and need that its users have a Gmail bill . Google says its free Web mail avail is tightly integrate with the Windows - base Google Talk practical software .
Gmail , launched in April 2004 , is still in beta mode and novel user have to be invite by an survive substance abuser to sign up for the service . Gmail user typically have 50 invitation usable .
Although there is no Google Talk customer uncommitted for the Mac , Google ’s use of XMPP mean thatother node programscan use the service . On Mac OS X , these programs includeAdium , Psi , andiChat 3.0(available as a part of Mac OS disco biscuit Tiger ) . The Google Talk internet site include instructions onhow to colligate iChatto the Google Talk server .
Once iChat is configured the right way , Google Talk buddies seem in iChat ’s Jabber List window .
Regarding the current lack of interoperability among the three largest consumer IM networks — Yahoo ’s Messenger , AOL ’s AIM and Microsoft ’s Messenger — Google said it is entrust to operate with IM divine service providers to base linkup between its service and others .
In addition to Gmail and Google Talk , Google has other non - search online services such as thePicasaWindows app to share and organise digital photos ; theOrkutsocial networking service , whose access remains restricted to invitation - only , like Gmail ; and the popularBloggerweblog table service .
