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When you go to the actual conference in the calendar event, do you still see a Hangouts URL and UI? Maybe we are on different sides of an A/B test.

by gomox 8y ago

SwellJoe 8y ago
Literally everything I see has Hangouts branding. And, not just for me or my events...I was invited to a meeting with someone from another company yesterday, and everything about it was branded with "Hangouts" and not "Meet", too. Also, the Google Meet website is laughably useless. It has literally no content, not even a description of what it is.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Also, the Google Meet website is laughably useless. It has literally no content, not even a description of what it is. “Video meetings for your business. Connect with your team from anywhere. With easy-to-join video calls, you can meet face to face without the added cost of travel.” https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/ https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/ EDIT: I just realized there is a separate “Google Meet” page which has no SERP summary and just redirects to the Play Store page for the Hangouts Meet app (at least, on Android.)
  - SwellJoe 8y ago
    This is what I see at the first link when I search for "Google Meet" (url is: https://meet.google.com https://meet.google.com, which seems like it's a reasonable point of entry URL for the product): https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7 It's not a good web page. Clicking the "Learn more" link takes me to a help page telling how to join a meeting...but, not much about what Meet is. It can be inferred, but it's also not a good introduction to Meet. I have now figured out what Meet is, but not why I would prefer it over Hangouts. It appears to be the same thing, only "for business" (and with a price tag, but no promise that Google will stop surveilling my every action online...which is really the one feature I'd absolutely be willing to pay for). I'll just reiterate that Google is bad at branding and marketing.
- gomox 8y ago
  Here's how a random invite looks like for me: https://imgur.com/a/I9NlO4X https://imgur.com/a/I9NlO4X

When you go to the actual conference in the calendar event, do you still see a Hangouts URL and UI? Maybe we are on different sides of an A/B test.

by gomox 8y ago

When you go to the actual conference in the calendar event, do you still see a Hangouts URL and UI? Maybe we are on different sides of an A/B test.

SwellJoe 8y ago

Literally everything I see has Hangouts branding. And, not just for me or my events...I was invited to a meeting with someone from another company yesterday, and everything about it was branded with "Hangouts" and not "Meet", too. Also, the Google Meet website is laughably useless. It has literally no content, not even a description of what it is.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> Also, the Google Meet website is laughably useless. It has literally no content, not even a description of what it is. “Video meetings for your business. Connect with your team from anywhere. With easy-to-join video calls, you can meet face to face without the added cost of travel.” https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/ https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/ EDIT: I just realized there is a separate “Google Meet” page which has no SERP summary and just redirects to the Play Store page for the Hangouts Meet app (at least, on Android.)
- SwellJoe 8y ago
  This is what I see at the first link when I search for "Google Meet" (url is: https://meet.google.com https://meet.google.com, which seems like it's a reasonable point of entry URL for the product): https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6HcFKEhMuFhy2EZ7 It's not a good web page. Clicking the "Learn more" link takes me to a help page telling how to join a meeting...but, not much about what Meet is. It can be inferred, but it's also not a good introduction to Meet. I have now figured out what Meet is, but not why I would prefer it over Hangouts. It appears to be the same thing, only "for business" (and with a price tag, but no promise that Google will stop surveilling my every action online...which is really the one feature I'd absolutely be willing to pay for). I'll just reiterate that Google is bad at branding and marketing.
gomox 8y ago
Here's how a random invite looks like for me: https://imgur.com/a/I9NlO4X https://imgur.com/a/I9NlO4X