Talk provides a simple way to connect instantly with your contacts with instant messaging and free PC-to-PC voice calls anywhere in the world. You can even exchange files with your contacts using Talk, with no file size restrictions..

Quick facts

Web-based chat from the start page Chat with colleagues and friends from right within your start page. The Talk gadget also allows for multi-person chat, so you can communicate more efficiently.

Free PC-to-PC voice calls (VOIP) You can talk to anyone else who's online and has the Google Talk client. The person on the other end can be anywhere in the world, and you can talk for as long as you want for free. If your contacts aren't online when you want to chat, you can leave a voicemail.

Real-time file transfers and text messaging Send files and text messages to your contacts. There are no file size or bandwidth restrictions.

Revision history Individual edits are kept so you can see who added and deleted what, when.

Search tools Just like Email, with Docs, you can search to look for a document you haven't edited in months.

Security and privacy You choose who sees your document, when. Other users can only access your document or presentation if you add them to the list of collaborators or viewers, or if you decide to publish the document. And administrators have the ability to set restrictions on internal and external document sharing.

Mobile access View your documents from your mobile phone.

Integration Users can access their documents right from your organization's Start Page. And the Spreadsheets data API allows other applications to display and update spreadsheets content.

Supported browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape

Supported languages US English, UK English, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Hebrew and Arabic are also supported for documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.