Google buys IM company?

Google has reportedly agreed to buy upstart software maker Meetroduction, based in Chicago. The company's premiere service, Meetro, lets people find one another online within a local radius of a quarter of a mile, or from across the Atlantic; and then chat instantly with those strangers or friends. Meetro's free, downloadable software also doubles as a social-networking application, allowing people to add profiles of themselves and stake out the personal details of other conversationalists.
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Google already owns IM software through its acquisition of Picasa, a photo-sharing service. Picasa developed Hello, instant chat software that lets people swap photos, too.

Combining Hello and Meetro, Google could create a special brew of IM that features social and local networking, photo-sharing and geographic search and mapping. A prospective "Google ME (for messaging)" could help people meet and chat, then exchange photos to make sure there's potential chemistry. If so, two people could search for and read reviews on the local coffee house together using embedded Google search and find a map to the meeting location. Nifty. | source: CNET News.com