The best instant message tool in China: OICQ

Today, let us talking about the OICQ(it's usually called "QQ" maybe for the convenience of the pronounciation.).

Overall
In November 1998, Tencent is founded in Shengzhen. Tencent's message service platform,"QQ",was formally launched in Feb ,1999.
After years of the strong business, QQ has became the NO.1 in IM field. The market share of the QQ is about 70%. MSN,operated by Microsoft,
take the No.2 list with about 10% market share.On July 16, 2004, Tencent Holdings Limited (SEHK 700) went public on the main board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

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Personally, I think that QQ copied a lot from the ICQ in the early stage.
But now, QQ has developed some features of his own including pet-feed, music search, e-commerce, news and so on.
The services which QQ offers meet a lot of people.
At present, besides sending message, u can also play online relaxing game with friends, go auction, watch onlie TV fruently and write posts.
Maybe, only QQ can integrate all the services into the platform with a large number of users.
Now matter portal website or Web2.0 company, they r jealous of the advantage which QQ has.
At the same time, some people also critize QQ for their copying service model from other companies.