Google Chat

proper noun

A communication service developed by Google: Google Talk or Google Hangouts.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. colloquialhistoricalA communication service developed by Google: Google Talk or Google Hangouts.

    Its popularity as a communication tool waned with the rise of text messaging, Google Chat and social networking sites.

    2017 October 6, Associated Press, “AOL shuts down Instant Messenger after 20 years of online chat”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2017
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    There’s Text Message in Chat (send text messages to your friends’ cellphones from within Google Chat or Gmail); […]

    2009 February 25, David Pogue, “Geniuses at Play, on the Job”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2011

    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.

    2013 May 1, Adriana Herrera, “One Entrepreneur’s Favorite Start-Up Tools”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2013

    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.

    2014 November 13, Samuel Gibbs, “Google Messenger: another reminder of a confused Android app approach”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2014
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Google Chat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Google%20Chat

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