Begin searching without closing instant message boxes

Posted June 7, 2006 at 09:20 PM by Adam Berger

Section: Communications, Software / Applications

So you are talking to your friends have 3 other programs open and really need to get some info. The normal reaction would be to open yet another program, either Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari… But why be forced to do that, your IM client is already connected to the internet, wouldn’t it be great to search within it. Kozoru, a new internet start-up, is trying to do just that. Users will select their sources in advance, Wikipedia, news sites, shopping sites, etc. Kozoru then conducts a general search on one of the major search engines, extracts the relevant links from the preselected sources, and delivers them into the chat window.

Most likely, users will primarily use this while on a Treo handheld or some other mobile device. Kozoru launched a public beta of the service on June 5. Right now, it is compatible only with AOL’s AIM service, but the company expects its technology to work with chat clients from Yahoo, MSN, Google and Jabber.

Update: Now anybody who has Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and any client that supports the Jabber/XMPP protocol (like Google Talk) can use byoms.

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