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Instant messaging is already well established, of course. Yahoo!, MSN and AOL (owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) have offered it for years. And Net telephony provider Skype has 51 million people using its system. So why would Google, with an $80 billion empire built entirely on search, bother playing catch-up on a product that seems unlikely to earn it much money? The same reason a hotel offers free wi-fi, says Scott Cleland, CEO of Precursor, an investment research firm. "They're not doing it to make money on wi-fi. It's to get people...
PICTURE AND VIDEO Now that still and moving images are increasingly digitized, they too can be searched with a click. Singingfish, acquired by America Online (which is owned by Time Warner, TIME's parent company) two years ago, can search AOL's video library of 15,000 titles, plus millions more over the Web, by looking for their titles and other attached identifying text, known as their metadata...
...Meanwhile, at AOL and MSN ? AOL has launched a preview of its new free Web portal, featuring a good video search that has already indexed more than 1 million video clips ? Later this summer, MSN will debut its Virtual Earth feature, which will compete with Google Earth and offer even more detailed images. Its new search page, search.msn.com, has a "local search" feature and is increasingly powerful and easy...
MEANWHILE, AT AOL...
...AOL has launched a preview of its new free Web portal, featuring a good video search that has already indexed more than 1 million video clips...