New Google Talk Gadget Goes Live

In a departure from the negative publicity surrounding the company this week, Google announced the launch of its instant messaging gadget today. The Google Talk gadget can be embedded in a user’s personalized Google homepage or on any other webpage or blog simply by adding a line of code.

While the launch of the Google Talk gadget may not exactly be the kind of news that has the potential to rock the foundation of the entire Internet, I’m sure any tidbit that draws attention away from the Viacom lawsuit is a welcome distraction for the folks at the Googleplex.

Here’s what the software engineers had to say about the gadget in the Google Finance, Google Groups?

I would venture to guess that number is much less than those who are familiar with all of Yahoo’s offerings.