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Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet

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Re: Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet

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Post by certifiedloud »

joshwd wrote: post #6

Oh yay, more chat apps from Google. I had finally hit a nice point of integration: using Hangouts with Project Fi means I got somewhat close to the iMessage experience (at least as far as being able to send/receive SMS from my computer). Clearly the integration wasn't great, and the Hangouts app is badly in need of work, but it's a shame to see that even that limited functionality is going away in favor of more fragm…

I use PushBullet to send SMS from my computer. It get's the job done. https://www.pushbullet.com/

Re: Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet

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Post by infogulch »

curt15 wrote: post #18
arcanus wrote: post #8

I'm no fan of slack but I don't see this as being competitive. Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Slack on the other hand has decent search capabilities. Plus, slack-bots are well integrated already. It does not avoid my largest criticism of slack: the inability to save conversation history locally. This sounds like a late to market slack-clone. What is innovativ…

>Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that a search function seems absolutely basic for a messaging app.

What search function? Do you mean going to gmail.com and searching "in:chat blah"? Even that is terrible.

Re: Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet

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Post by 01000001 »

anw wrote: post #9

Slack is very important to a lot of companies and groups. We use it not only as an IRC replacement, but also to hook into our CI and git repos. Along with the wealth of information and tools already put in there, there is the mindset that Slack is our communication tool we can rely on. Google does not have a good track record when it comes to supporting their products. Look at Picasa, Google Glass, Bump, Currents, an…

My thought exactly. How long could I use this for, before it was ripped away from me? How much would I invest into this, only to get told I have two months to migrate?

Sorry Google, your search is great, your email services easy to use, but everything from your Apps for business panel through to your plethora of half-baked products are messy and inaccessible.

Re: Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet

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Post by chu4n »

arcanus wrote: post #8

I'm no fan of slack but I don't see this as being competitive. Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Slack on the other hand has decent search capabilities. Plus, slack-bots are well integrated already. It does not avoid my largest criticism of slack: the inability to save conversation history locally. This sounds like a late to market slack-clone. What is innovativ…

Hangouts Chat does indeed have powerful search functionality built-in, as shown in the demo.

Screenshot from TC: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/664cd61...

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