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Google web browser screen including instant message chat window
Google Inc. has begun offering a simpler way for Google users to conduct instant message chats from inside a Web browser window, alongside their e-mail, the Mountain View, California-based company said late on February 6, 2006. Gmail Chat, as the new service is known, includes a Quick Contacts list on the left side of Google Gmail e-mail program, which automatically displays the people the user communicates with most frequently, not just via Chat but also via Gmail e-mail or its more advanced Google Talk text and voice-calling service. No additional software is required other than a Web browser and a Gmail account. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Google/handout