Google (TM)

Google Talk is all the rage among my computer nerd friends. If you haven’t heard the hype yet (it probably hasn’t spread away from the nerds yet), allow me to enlighten you.
Google Talk is a very simple (watered-down) chat client, similar to the Instant Messengers from AOL, Yahoo, and MSN. It pretty much has only two features: a regular text messaging, and a voice chat (both features that the other clients have had for a long time). It doesn’t even send files.
You might ask, Why do the computer nerds (who should know better) like it, if it’s such a piece of junk? Well, I’ll tell you. You see, the hard-core computer nerds have a very strong bias against Microsoft, and hate everything that they make, even if it’s better than the alternatives. In a similar fashion, they love everything with the brand name “Google”, without regard to whether it’s good or not. Google is just a corporate entity like any other (including Microsoft).
The reason I post this to the non-nerd world is simply that I fear that other people will be blinded by the Google name and fail to see that this particular program is a folly. I think it was silly of Google to make a chat client in the first place. What’s the point of switching to a brand new chat program that no one even has yet? Even if the feature set were better than other IM’s (which it isn’t), don’t you choose your chat based on which one your friends are on?