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Yahoo! Puts IM Inside Web Browsers

By: Reuters | May 03, 2007

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One attraction of Yahoo's new Web-based IM service is an archive feature that allows a user to search back to find all previous conversations with any of their IM contacts. Another feature likely to impress heavy users is the ability to manage 10 or more simultaneous conversations in just one IM window.

Yahoo is No. 2 worldwide in IM with 88.5 million users, according to audience measurement firm comScore Inc., AOL's AIM is No. 1 in the United States, and Microsoft's MSN/Windows Live Messenger is most popular globally.

Historically, a big disadvantage of IM was that both sender and receiver had to use the same service. Since last July, Yahoo Messenger users have been able to talk to MSN IM users.

IDC analyst Rebecca Swensen said Yahoo, along with AIM, MSN, Google and eBay Inc.'s Skype, is blurring the distinctions that existed in the first decade of the Web between e-mail, instant-messaging and phone-calling.

"All these guys are laying the foundation for an online communications platform for users," she said, noting that Web services are fast becoming available not just on computers but also mobile phones, televisions and game consoles.

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