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Google Talk Available Early

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the resourceful-users dept.

smash writes "Google's new IM service is already live. All you need is a Jabber-compatible Instant Messaging client (such as Apple's iChat, or gaim), and a GMail address." This should answer, at least in part, all of the speculation that has been flying around the net over the last couple of days. Update: Many users have been eager to let us know that Google Talk in indeed live.

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  1. Google tomorrow? by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stay tuned to Google tomorrow for details.

    Er, is that one http://tomorrow.google.com/ ?

    1. Re:Google tomorrow? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

      Some enterprising young PFY is going to run around the google campus tomorrow shouting off about all the hits to a new google subdomain.

      Any number of PHDs will be fevorishly amending their projects to fit into this new domain.
      The stock price is going to rocket based on yet more speculation of features and we will have even less reason to leave google.

      All because you made a first post joke.

      Congratulations.

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    2. Re:Google tomorrow? by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Couldn't locate tomorrow.google.com"... whoa! You've slashdotted Google! I didn't think that was possible!

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    3. Re:Google tomorrow? by kuhneng · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey, now there's a service I'd like to see from Google: search web sites from the future. That would put an end to all of this tiring speculation on what new service they'll think up next.

      Come to think of it, they could incorporate the technology into other parts of the side. Why present a list of results when you can search the future logs to find out which result I'm going to click and take me straight there.

    4. Re:Google tomorrow? by kai.chan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Er, is that one http://tomorrow.google.com/

      Google Tomorrow's mission is to organize the future and make it universally accessible and useful. When you, a Slashdot user, visit tomorrow.google.com, you'll be able to find information about your future love and careers; search through more than three billion girls and find that you will be alone for the rest of eternity; then peruse the world's largest archive of future jobs -- that have all been outsourced to India dating back to 1995.

    5. Re:Google tomorrow? by MikeXpop · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's not available today...

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    6. Re:Google tomorrow? by Refrag · · Score: 5, Funny

      They probably downloaded it.

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  2. huh? by keyvoh · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is a google?

  3. Now spy on your friends! by IIDX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Use the power of google search to find juicy tidbits in other's google talk conversations!

  4. Re:ugh, throw it on the heap... by urdine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why, friendly google adwords, of course! Talking about baseball? Why not visit espn.com? Or better yet, Baseball on eBay. 1000s of Baseballs for Sale!

  5. Eh by Trip+Ericson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google Talk is great, but what I REALLY need is 'Google ShutUp' to make the irritating people I know go away while providing them with targetted, text-based ads.

  6. OK by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Check this one - nn to the next round of breathless speculation about what Google will do.

    Will they release an office suite?
    Will they release a browser?
    Will they release a line of refrigerators?
    Will they purchase Oracle?
    Will they purchase Uruguay?
    Will they hire Stallman?
    Will they hire Ballmer?
    Will they hire Peter Griffin?

    I sure as hell don't know, but I'm sure I'll hear about it constantly on GashDot. Um... I mean Slashoogle. Er, that is... Slooshdot. Eh, fuck it.

    1. Re:OK by big+tex · · Score: 4, Funny

      Will they hire Peter Griffin?

      That would be freakin' sweet.

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  7. Google spellchecking by flibble-san · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if they will add Google-style spellchecking... omfg lol rofl - Did you mean "I'm a sad script kiddy?"

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  8. Great by dtfinch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I have yet another account with no buddies in Gaim.

  9. There goes Philosophy point #2 by wombert · · Score: 5, Funny

    From http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings. html

    Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat.

    (Guess they better remember to update that page when they make the announcement...)

    And the real burning question - When can I get my Googlescope???

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  10. Re:ugh, throw it on the heap... by TLSPRWR · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you RTFA, you will see that talk.google.com requires TLS to connect.

    Don't you dare use me to connect. I have limited enough bandwidth as is.

  11. Wow! by Will2k_is_here · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha! Begging for Gmail invites! That's so 2004.

  12. Re:Gmail by bahwi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, shut up. It's the only exclusive club I can get into these days(and I still had to buy my invite!). Now I can laugh at all those 100meg hotmail users. Losers.

  13. Re:Thats the whole point by SamSim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thousands of [rtGDS'p7500-0'p"£!$ now available at eBay!

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