Google Expanding To IRC?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @01:51AM 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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The original scoop on this story... by Punchinello · 2003-11-11 02:01 · 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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