Once bitten twice shy..

Google introduced its instant messaging application with voice capability today. Having had a bad experience with google once, I was in this anti-google thing for the past couple of weeks. I changed my search engine to Yahoo and I used Yahoo maps for my directions. But today morning, as soon as I saw the article on this new application, I was immediately tempted to try it out and the first hand experience of the google's midas touch in new applications that they launch.
The UI is really impressive, I should say. One feature that is now pulling me back towards google is its VoIP capability over my company's VPN and proxy. No other IMs VoIP works over my corporate firewall and proxy and Google's is the only one that works. Kudos to them for that capability.. Spoke to a friend in Seattle while logged into my company's VPN and the voice quality was very good. But have to wait and see if it remains the same.
I understand that this application is not as mature as YM and MSN and so I did not expect a feature rich beta version. True to my expectation, it has just given the barebone essentials for chat and VoIP. A good start I would say. Lets see what they come up with in the future versions of this product. I have already sent out invitations to a few friends email address. For those reading this blog, you can download it from here and can reach me at my ID mailsiva.
I could not resist writing about this and here I am shamelessly singing praise of google for their latest web gadget. Looks like its hard to crack that google bond out of me for some more time.