Google Chat
English
Proper noun
- (colloquial, historical) A communication service developed by Google: Google Talk or Google Hangouts.
- 2009 February 25, David Pogue, “Geniuses at Play, on the Job”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 September 2011:
- There’s Text Message in Chat (send text messages to your friends’ cellphones from within Google Chat or Gmail); […]
- 2013 May 1, Adriana Herrera, “One Entrepreneur’s Favorite Start-Up Tools”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 May 2013:
- 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.
- 2014 November 13, Samuel Gibbs, “Google Messenger: another reminder of a confused Android app approach”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 November 2014:
- 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.
- 2017 October 6, Associated Press, “AOL shuts down Instant Messenger after 20 years of online chat”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2017:
- 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).