7. The method of claim 5 further comprising gathering the keywords associated with the selected instant messaging group, the gathering comprising: retrieving the plurality of archived instant messaging messages; retrieving a keywords data store corresponding to the select instant messaging group; identifying non-trivial words that are unique and included in the retrieved plurality of archived instant messaging messages; and storing the identified unique, non-trivial words in the retrieved keywords data store.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the instant messaging message is selected from a plurality of archived instant messaging messages, wherein the archived instant messaging messages were previously communicated during a past instant messaging.