Thread: Google talk

So what is google talk? Is it like an instant messaging app, or maybe something more along the lines of skype? Judging from all the other stuff google has done (I <3 gmail!), I'd love to see what they could do for a chat app...

Originally posted by fourth_esper
So what is google talk? Is it like an instant messaging app, or maybe something more along the lines of skype? Judging from all the other stuff google has done (I <3 gmail!), I'd love to see what they could do for a chat app...

See it's so amazing, the application actually teleports your through the Internet so you can talk to anyone in the world, face to face! And did I mention it was free? Google also let's you use search for anyone in the world that has Internet access that you've had a wet dream about so you can stalk them, secretly.

Google reserves the right to spy on what you are doing at anytime and record your conversations for commercial use and ad-trafficking. All rights reserved G-team 2005

Originally posted by Squall

See it's so amazing, the application actually teleports your through the Internet so you can talk to anyone in the world, face to face! And did I mention it was free? Google also let's you use search for anyone in the world that has Internet access that you've had a wet dream about so you can stalk them, secretly.

Google reserves the right to spy on what you are doing at anytime and record your conversations for commercial use and ad-trafficking. All rights reserved G-team 2005

exactly! its soo cool

the sites up early... talk.google.com

it rulesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

only its a bit primitive, they'll undoubtedly add more features, as this is still in BETA.

I love the simplicity, its so lite *floats off*

and yeah post if u can get it

Neat.

...What is it? As asked before, is it an IM client, or something akin to Skype? Or what?

Originally posted by TheDigitalNomad
Neat.

...What is it? As asked before, is it an IM client, or something akin to Skype? Or what?

oh sry lol

its a very simple (not for long) IM client that supports voIP (voice over internet protocol) and i think it can even call real land lines.. have not tried though

dont know what skype is sry

Sounds cool.

Skype is a free PC to PC voicechat program. You can make calls to regular phones but that's a paid feature.

Have you tried Qnext? It combines filesharing (192-bit transfers safer then banks), MSN, YIM, AIM, ICQ, voicechat, and video conferencing all in one.

Originally posted by Squall
Have you tried Qnext? It combines filesharing (192-bit transfers safer then banks), MSN, YIM, AIM, ICQ, voicechat, and video conferencing all in one.

holy schnikeys that sounds cool

but hrm dunno i think KaZaA can make calls to land lines for free, but noone uses that mynamey program anymore anyway.

I got it. But I haven't got a microphone. My e-mail is [email protected]

I have it too, um, I have a mic IF you wanna voice chat

IT'S IN MY PROFILE MY GMAIL LOLOLOL

Hmm sounds good. Apparently Google Talk is going to rig it so that you can use it to talk to AIM MSN ICQ or what ever other bloody client out there...

On a side note, did you know that Google saves the content from every single email sent and recieved through Gmail to its servers? They invested millions in these mammoth servers to do it. I'll try and find some info, because I only heard it over the radio, but it sounds a little dodgy to me...

Hey I've just downloaded it, I havn't got a mic yet but yeah here it is - [email protected]

W00t finaly!1 i was waiting for this for a while. sutch a short download... and you can use your Gmail account to sign in! and is sais when you have new mail!! w00t go GOOGLE! everyone get it!

my name is "pytis123" feel free to message me via google

Originally posted by Roller


On a side note, did you know that Google saves the content from every single email sent and recieved through Gmail to its servers? They invested millions in these mammoth servers to do it. *I'll try and find some info, because I only heard it over the radio, but it sounds a little dodgy to me...

Um don't you think all our emails are saved on some server somewhere.... Be it Google, MSN, Yahoo or Joe Blow email... our emails are not just floating around the net.

OR are you saying that our emails are never deleted from their servers? HUMMM

Anyway check my profile for my email... I have gmail too. I have not yet checked out G-talk though. I am sure I will check it out sooner or later. Sounds cool!

Oh yeah if anyone wants and invite to gmail... I've got some

OR are you saying that our emails are never deleted from their servers? HUMMM

Yeah, they invested money in a huge sever, seperate from their Gmail server, and any email and every word searched on Google is archived on the other server permanently, supposedly as a way of enabling google and unprecedented amount of information as to what people are looking up and interested in etc. It sounds a little bit like a conspiracy-theory so I haven't really bought into it completley... just an interesting thing I've heard.[/quote]

OR are you saying that our emails are never deleted from their servers? HUMMM

Yeah, they invested money in a huge sever, seperate from their Gmail server, and any email and every word searched on Google is archived on the other server permanently, supposedly as a way of enabling google and unprecedented amount of information as to what people are looking up and interested in etc. It sounds a little bit like a conspiracy-theory so I haven't really bought into it completley... just an interesting thing I've heard.

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also every IM you type

google desktop search also archives AIM messages on your computer.

Text is not a big deal to save, really... its the kind of media like audio, video, audio+video AAAH, and pictures and such. Lemme do a quick calculation since, after all, I am the only one here that lives in math country:

One character(letter, number, pun<tuat!on) takes up one byte.

One kilobyte is 1024 bytes, 1024 letters.

One megabyte is about 1000 kilobytes, exactly 1,048,576 bytes, same number of letters.

One gigabyte is about 1000 megabytes, about 1,000,000 kilobytes. exactly 1,073,741,824 bytes, same number of letters.

A typical computer hard drive these days might be anywhere from 180-200 gb. lets say 190.

an average PERSONAL hard drive can hold 204,010,946,560 letters, or with an average of 7 letters per word, it can hold 34,001,824,426 words. Guessing that the average book is 16,000 words, a typical computer hard drive can hold 2,125,114 books. Thats two milion books in half the size of a typical piece of handheld literature.

Now there IS the argument that you need a special machine to be able to extract this information(computer...), you need sufficent power, yadda yadda, go to hell.