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Hangouts Chat / Meet [0] brings a lot, if not all, of this when it comes out. Meet keeps most of what hangouts video has today, but a better UI and uses hardwar
by kyrra 9y ago
Hangouts Chat / Meet [0] brings a lot, if not all, of this when it comes out. Meet keeps most of what hangouts video has today, but a better UI and uses hardware codecs when it chan.
Hangout Chat is really a rework of the idea of hangouts. It brings a lot of functionality that people like from Slack (everything you mention I believe).
Note that Hangouts today does have search sorta (it ain't great). If conversation history is on, it can be searched from Gmail web (not Inbox either), using the "in:chat" filter.
(I work for G, opinions are my own)
[0] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/03/09/google-takes-slack-new-hangouts-chat-meet-apps/ https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/03/09/google-takes-slack-...
- twothamendment 9y agoAre there any plans to have a decent API? Getting a script to post to Slack is trivial. Same with having a bot read all the messages in realtime.
- kyrra 9y agoFrom: https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise-focused-hangouts/ https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise... "The Hangouts Chat platform supports a wide range of capabilities — from bots to simple scripting using Google App Script — and integrates with third-party applications so teams can do more right from within the conversation." That's I think all that has been said so far. More details will come once it's released.