Google & AOL
January 5th, 2006
So Google bought a 5% share in AOL, or something along those lines. This sounds kind of scary, but Google promises this won’t endanger the integrity of their search engine. One good thing to come out of this is that
AOL’s Internet-leading instant messaging service will become compatible with Google’s 4-month-old service next year, but Google’s users will have to register with AOL to gain access to the expanded network, according to Friday’s filing.
Hopefully this means that Google is going to make AIM using Jabber. If so, it will be a great victory in the battle of standards.
1 Response to “Google & AOL”
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January 8th, 2006 at 11:34 AM
Oops, didn’t see that I wasn’t allowed to use HTML:
Sounds like Google is probably going to use an AIM transport or something—but maybe make the process a little easier.
myjabber.net provides the same thing, and it works great for me—I use it for MSN and AIM. Works great. Just query myjabber.net for services, and choose AIM.
It does bring a little sanity to my life…and finally I have some people who will talk to me after I gave up everything but Jabber about a year ago.