Google Talk is a new small yet tiny program from Google; that lets one to talk with other Gmail user(s) over the internet for free of cost. You need to use the same Gmail account user name to sigin in. As said, this tiny program offers just to talk with other GMail users with very limited basic functionality that every messenger has now a days.
Last week, Yahoo! is also released a new Yahoo! messenger with voice , which also offers free PC-to-PC calling (even though voice chat is there for years) with great added features like photo sharing, file transfers and many more rich feature set that Google Talk does not offer. I wonder why one has to move to Google Talk when we can get everything from Yahoo! and almost everyone has Yahoo! account and used with Yahoo! messenger for years; unless Google Talk adds revolutionary features that makes users to jump to use to Google Talk instead of Yahoo! or MSN messenger!. We have to wait and see who will be the final winner in the long run; but at for sure Yahoo! has strong hold in this area along with MSN.