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Which is an instant messenger that is used for chatting?

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UGC NET 2015 Paper 1 Question Paper (27-Dec-2015)
The correct answer is

Google Talk

An instant messenger is software that allows two or more users to exchange text messages in real time over the internet, so the answer is the option that names such a service.

Google Talk is the instant messenger. Launched by Google, it allowed users to chat in real time, see whether their contacts were online, and also make voice calls, and it was integrated with the user's Google account and mail service.

The other three belong to entirely different categories of software. Altavista was a search engine, one of the earliest and best known, used for finding pages on the web rather than for conversation. MAC most commonly refers to the Macintosh line of computers made by Apple, so it names a hardware platform and its operating system rather than an application; it may also stand for Media Access Control in networking, which is again unrelated to chatting. Microsoft Office is an office productivity suite containing programs such as a word processor, a spreadsheet and presentation software, none of which is a messaging tool.

The useful discriminator is real-time two-way conversation: only Google Talk provides it.

Hence the instant messenger used for chatting is Google Talk.

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