Google Talk: Not everything from Google is good…
Ralf Haller
October 1st, 2007
I was encouraged by some colleagues today to briefly blog about this experience. We needed to chat with someone in the Middle East on a project. Since that country is blocking Skype it was suggested we use Google Talk for chatting. So we did. We had only three people in the chat but were quite annoyed by the fact that Google Talk does not support multiple chatters. Only two people can chat with each other at a time. If you have three people only you can still manage of course - even if it is annoying - but more people would be impossible to do without unreasonable effort. In addition, the user interface was otherwise very poor and at times irritating. As one of my colleagues said: “yes that tool is really crap.” Only excuse they have is that it is in “beta” still…