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I have used Yahoo IM a long time and am very familiar with it but it seems it is being overtaken by commercial profiles. What I like is in the member directory I can search for other profiles by key words and IM for conversation one on one. In ICQ can you do individual searches or is it all groups you must begin with? Are there profiles with pictures etc like Yahoo? Finally, are there any tricks or security issues I should know about I want to remain as anonymous as possible regarding personal information. Whats the basics? Thanks for any suggestions.
Yeah, ICQ has a pretty robust people search. You may want to try http://www.icq.com/whitepages to conduct searches. Searches can also be made from the ICQ client, as depicted in this screenshot
The profiles pages on ICQ are pretty informative, with lots of details and photographs that MUST be of the person’s face, because I suspect the pictures are manually checked for this. See http://wwp.icq.com/1234567 where 1234567 would be the UIN or ICQ account number of a member.
As for privacy; if you want people search for people on ICQ to see that you’re online and can contact you, you want to have Web Aware enabled. However, this introduces the problem of spam on ICQ, so be aware of that issue.
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