Google chat = Google Hangouts Chat. They rebranded it 10 days ago. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21215588/google-chat-hangouts-meet-g-suite-name-change-reb

Google chat = Google Hangouts Chat. They rebranded it 10 days ago. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21215588/google-chat-hangouts-meet-g-suite-name-change-rebranding https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21215588/google-chat-hango... It is effectively a slack or teams competitor. Classic Hangouts is/was a lot of things. Sadly it was too many things. The new Chat has very similar Gmail integration, so if they ever get it out to consumer, it hopefully won't be a big change for people.