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AOL joins banners closed at chatservice ICQ

Since last week users of ICQ get a small banner on their screen. These is taken up within the screen that in image appeared as ICQ becomes opgestart. The shown banners its now not yet commercial of nature, but advertise services of ICQ self.

Opposite CNet affirms a spokesman of AOL that the business of plan is ICQ commercially to go uitbaten.,. It is will advertise cannot yet clear when third parties via the ICQ-software.

Only internal pus, that the last versions of ICQ 2000b use,-, get to see otherwise the bannertjes. Surprising is not the step. In AOL own Instant Messenger (AIM) becomes already longer advertising made by third businesses. AIM has 84 million users, while ICQ is with 88 million registered users of the worldly most custom IM-service.

Although Instant Messenger-services are quite popular, analysts have one's doubts or advertising via this software well effectively is. Some think even that users only gerriteerd will hit.

America Online bought ICQ in 1998.

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