Google Talk versus Yahoo Messenger
With the Peanut Butter Memo leak at Yahoo, and Google’s stock price flirting with the $500 mark, I thought it would be interesting to see what people thought about two of the more common non-Search services that these two giants provide — Messenger, and Email.
Lets start with Messenger. Yahoo Messenger was quite popular over the years, competing mainly with AOL’s AIM and Microsoft’s Messenger. The Yahoo smiley even came into the common lexicon. Google, meanwhile, launched Google Talk using an interesting tactic — making it available inside Gmail.
What do people think of the two offerings? My two cents — Yahoo’s myriad features are very nice, but Google allowed me to chat while working at companies where the internal firewall prevented me from downloading Yahoo Messenger, or MSN Messenger. While this is no longer an issue, now that I am in a startup, I still have a lot of friends in bigger companies (like Johnson & Johnson) who primarily use Google Talk.
-Vikram
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December 14th, 2006 at 11:29 am
I use Trillian, which allows you to roll in all your contacts from YM, AIM, MS Messenger. The only drawback is that Google Talk is not yet included, so you can’t chat with friends signed up on that. It still makes a lot of sense to use Trillian and not be tied in to any one messenger!