Comments on: How Many Google Talk’rs Really?

By: Garland

Garland — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:40:01 +0000

Skype killed my brother’s modem so I’m moving to Google Talk

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What Is Google's VOIP Strategy? | The VoIP Mag — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:27:08 +0000

[...] considering some Google tools haven’t had great luck with consumers yet. Om Malik, for one, observed that as of July 2006 only 44,000 people used Google Talk for IM [...]

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Tecnoliberal » Blog Archive » ¿Prepara Google el asalto a la VoIP? — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:13:31 +0000

[...] de usuarios de Google Talk ascendía a la “astronómica” cifra de… 44.000 usuarios. Es lógico teniendo en cuenta que para emplear GTalk debías descargarte un programa e [...]

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:11:30 +0000

The number seems pretty low. Still, I have friends that work at Google who don’t use their GTalk. Go figure.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:48:52 +0000

I use Google Talk in GMail & on my BlackBerry. For VOIP, I’m still using Skype…especially since it’s free for the rest of the year.

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:19:49 +0000

Are they distinguishing between using google talk as an IM program, using google talk to for voip, or using google talk within gmail? from my limited experience, it seems that google talk within gmail especially has picked up considerably and created more interest in the application than the stand alone client because it is easy to use in work places were IM clients are kept off the computer. Yes, there are plenty of options, with Meebo, etc, but GMail is already a popular choice, especially for people as they graduate college and need a new email account, and so it has been a natural progression for people without AIM in the office. If I know 20 people who use it, the population at large has to be significant.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:14:32 +0000

I find that number ridiculously low. The people in my “chat circle” don’t necessary constitute a representative set, but lets say 90% of my chatting is via gtalk. Do people who use the talk from the gmail interface count (that accounts for the majority of my gtalk traffic)?