German Masterplan says that Google Talk, as soon as you run it, will track the pages you visit by sending a Googlebot in your tracks (here, crawl-66-249-66-9.googlebot.com) – can anyone confirm this?
www.masterplan24 .de/weblog/archives/google_talk_ spioniert_den_user_aus.html

The Google Talk privacy notice says this:
"When you use Google Talk, we may record information about your usage, such as when you use Google Talk, the size of your contact list and the contacts you communicate with, and the frequency and size of data transfers. Information displayed or clicked on in the Google Talk interface (including UI elements, settings, and other information) is also recorded."
google.com/talk/privacy.html

I'm used to the Google toolbar tracking pages I visit (with enabled PageRank feature) so it wouldn't come as a big surprise...

is this in anyway hooked into this thread ??
blogoscoped.com/forum/25283.ht ...

I remember that the IP number ing seems to similar!!