Google has always found ways to change and improve offering various services to its user, which is pretty much the reason for its unmatched success. It has virtually established and redefined the benchmark in internet-based services with all its innovations and variations of existing products. At times, it has scared the world with technology like ‘Google Map’ due to security concerns (but I find them really wonderful), it has also constantly amazed and pleased its users.
While Google’s mail service-Gmail is very popular and used widely across the world, the problem is with the fact that its IM services are not always all that popular. Google introduced instant messaging service in 2006 February and since then, despite catching up, the ‘Gtalk’ is not as popular are some of its more illustrious counterparts like those offered by Yahoo.
Now, Google has declared that it would integrate the very popular AIM of AOL into Gmail so as to facilitate direct chatting services for its users. AIM is a very popular service across the planet and more than 75 percent of all IM users on net use either AIM or its enterprise product for instant messaging. This is probably a service already existing by the time you check your mail next, as Google says this would be a part of English version of Gmail by 4th December.
It says that it would be subsequently introduced into other language versions. Now only if someone could tell Google to introduce an ‘invisible’ mode in its chat window, it would help me stay away from some people without shooing them away constantly.
