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Google Expanding To IRC?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-that'll-be-useful dept.

AnimeFreak writes "In this The Register article, Google apparently has been involved in a little bit of activity in various IRC channels. According to Google, as asked by IRC Junkie: they're researching ways to improve their service and the activity is only temporary. Could this mean an ability to search for information that is contained on IRC? Services, such as Netsplit.de and Search IRC exist, and both allow the ability to get information from various IRC networks. Is Google trying to replicate what both these sites have done?"

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  1. I believe there is already a such a service by caston · · Score: 2, Informative

    and believe it or not it's called xgoogle.com

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  2. The original scoop on this story... by Punchinello · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems Tony Collen had the original scoop on this story. It is more informative than the Register link.

    If you scroll down his original web log on this topic you will see Google's first official acknowledgment of their IRC activity.

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  3. the last line in the article got me thinking.. by WegianWarrior · · Score: 3, Informative

    How IRC users would react to a bot from microsoft.com is an exercise left to the reader.

    If the IRC is anything like was it was when I last brushed thru, not many will even notice - or attemt to engage the 'bots in "virtual intimate acts".

    Off course, there would always be someone - likely a Mac or Linux user - who will notice and scream up about how MicroSoft is 'spying' on the IRC-network, which in turn would lead to several more or less wellinformed blogs writting about it, which in turn will lead to a /. headline close to "Micro$oft trying to take over IRC, will shut out 3rd part clients"...

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  4. Re:When will this end? by Richard_at_work · · Score: 3, Informative

    bash.org dude! Bash.org!!

  5. Re:Interesting by sokk · · Score: 2, Informative

    I visited the site, but it only index channel names. Not discussions. Eg. you can't search for: "Cannot open /dev/dsp" +quake 3 I should've mentioned it; but I meant searching past discussions.