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Chat log
A chat archive is an archive of transcripts from online Yahoo!
chat and instant messaging conversations. Many chat or
Yahoo first experimented with online archiving of Yahoo
IM applications allow for the client-side archiving of on-
Messenger chat logs through its Yahoo! Messenger for
line chat conversations, while a subset of chat or IM
the Web application, which separately saves its own chat
clients (i.e., Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger 11 Beta)
archive when users communicate through that client. In
allow for the saving of chat archives on a server for fu-
2010, the beta of the 11th version of the standalone Mes-
ture retrieval. The latter trend has been adopted by the
senger client featured online archiving of chat logs, al-
applications’ vendors because of the decreasing cost of
though the archive is only available and viewable from
web server hard drive space.
within the logged-in client.
Examples
Google
Google has integrated its own chat archiving feature into
Gmail, which lists Google Talk and Gmail Chat conversa-
tions alongside email conversations.
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