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Does Google need an IM client?


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This has been tossed around some blogs and has apparently hit the more than rumor status.  The first run had people asking Google to buy Trillian.  That would be quite the way to jump right in.  Instead it looks like Google will take on Meetro from a Chicago-based company called Meetroduction.

Of course, the reasoning is more than apparent why they would waste the time if Google has been so wildly profitable as a search engine.  To make people sticky to their site.  Yahoo! jumped into the realm of new search engines and the Yahoo! Messenger service keeps people clicking away through links, mail, music and calendaring (yes that even syncs to Palm).  So Google had to make a play and take a small chance.  What could it hurt?  Even financially this is a drop in the bucket and gives an open door to integration all over the Google and even Gmail sites.  The product they chose to possibly pick up is not totally what I expected, but then again Google never is.