


Google Meet is an online meeting application that’s in the same general category as Zoom and GoToMeeting. There’s even an API for building your own bot.Ĭurrent Google Workspace users can go to if Google Chat (still Hangouts Chat in the admin UI) is enabled for their organization. Google Chat has a number of other features, including bots for popular applications such as Salesforce, Asana, Xero and Trello. If you have been using the classic Hangouts chat feature, You’ll immediately see past conversation threads in the new Hangouts Chat interface. This is a direct competitor to Slack.Ĭhat is backward compatible with the now “classic” Hangouts chat feature. On July 15, 2020, Google announced “a new integrated workspace experience that brings Chat, Meet, and Gmail together on desktop and mobile.” Rooms will now be the shared spaces that unite chat, files and tasks.
