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Update: Google plans instant-messaging system, report says

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Google Inc. is set to introduce its own instant messaging system, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday, marking the expansion by the Web search leader into text and also voice communications.

Citing unnamed sources "familiar with the service," the Los Angeles Times said that Google's Instant Messaging program would be called Google Talk and could be launched as early as Wednesday.

Google Talk goes beyond text-based instant messaging using a computer keyboard to let users hold voice conversations with other computer users, the newspaper quoted a source as saying.

A Google spokeswoman declined to comment on the company's product plans.

Update: A post over on Slashdot explains that Google's IM offerring is already live, and to stay tuned for a major announcement tomorrow -- so stay tuned for an important announcement from Google tomorrow! :-).

posted by Fergie @ 8/23/2005 04:34:00 PM