Google Chat

English Proper noun Google Chat en colloquial historical A communication service developed by Google: Google Talk or Google Hangouts. 25 February 2009 w:David Pogue Geniuses at Play, on the Job https://web.archive.org/web/20110908025323/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/technology/personaltech/26pogue.html There’s Text Message in Chat (send text messages to your friends’ cellphones from within Google Chat or Gmail); 1 May 2013 Adriana Herrera One Entrepreneur’s Favorite Start-Up Tools https://web.archive.org/web/20130503114423/https://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/one-entrepreneurs-favorite-start-up-tools/ Zopim is a real-time customer-support tool that we’ve found to be extremely flexible to use. It has an online dashboard and a plug-in for Gmail so that you can provide support through Google Chat. Google Chat links to https://www.google.com/talk/. 13 November 2014 Samuel Gibbs Google Messenger: another reminder of a confused Android app approach https://web.archive.org/web/20141114184647/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/13/google-messenger-android-app-approach Later came Google Chat, a mobile extension of Google’s instant messaging app from Gmail, which morphed into Hangouts. Initially Google Hangouts couldn’t send and receive SMS, instead operating only over the internet like WhatsApp, but connecting to Google Chat for messaging desktop users as well as smartphone users. 6 October 2017 w:Associated Press AOL shuts down Instant Messenger after 20 years of online chat https://web.archive.org/web/20171007002713/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/06/aol-shuts-down-instant-messenger-aim Its popularity as a communication tool waned with the rise of text messaging, Google Chat and social networking sites. Usage notes Not to be confused with their replacement Google Chat (under this name since 2020). Related terms en Gchat en Google Nicknames