Google puts instant message service inside e-mail

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Google Inc. users will be able to conduct instant message chats from a Google Web browser window, alongside their e-mails, instead of requiring a separate application! Seems pretty slick, but only time will tell how nice the feature will be.

Google is fixing a decade-old technical divide between the generic Web browser that can check e-mail, search the Web or perform a host of other activities, and separate software used to converse in quick back-and-forth messages with buddies. “We are breaking down some of the artificial barriers between e-mail and Web browsing,” Salar Kamangar, Google’s vice president of product management, said in a phone interview.

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