I believe they're phasing out the Google Voice apps (although this may not have ever been announced) in favor of more integrated solutions. Now why Hangouts are

I believe they're phasing out the Google Voice apps (although this may not have ever been announced) in favor of more integrated solutions. Now why Hangouts are not searchable, I will never know. I could care a bit less about the colors and animation strategy Google is using, but why they don't just put a search bar at the top of every product of theirs is a mystery I'm afraid I'll have to live with for quite some time. Even the Google+ app (at least) has terrible search and takes too many clicks - I believe Facebook has actually caught up on this.