want to ask who is the instant communication tool has the largest number of users, the answer is QQ; but to ask who is the originator of the instant communication tools, the answer is ICQ. This seems to have become an old vocabulary, even in many dictionaries have not appeared, but the ICQ (I seek you, Chinese means "I find you") is QQ, MSN and many other young fathers, but it was sold again reduced to the situation.
1998 AOL to $287 million acquisition. In November last year, with AOL will focus on content and advertising business, the company stripped ICQ and other peripheral business, as one of the measures to reduce the size of the core areas of concern. The news that ICQ’s bid price is about $200 million.