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Google Talk: the dud in the Google lineup

Google Talk: the dud in the Google lineup

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
Molly Wood
It looks like in the GOOG's stable. Comscore's usage numbers, reported this week on Tech Crunch and elsewhere, show that Google Talk is a total dud--commanding less than 1 percent of the total instant- messaging share and garnering a pathetic 44,000 users in June. And Microsoft can take a little bit of comfort from the numbers, as it continues to panic about Google taking over the title of "top evil empire dog": MSN Messenger apparently rules the IM market-share world. Who knew?