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12 of Google’s Most Embarrassing Product Failures
We’re all familiar with Google’s successes. Most folks reading this probably use one of the company’s services every day, be it Google Maps, Search, Android Auto, or Chrome OS. But for every megahit, there is a lengthy list of duds — apps, social platforms, or hardware that, for one reason or another, never reached the…
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Google Is Signing Out Free Hangouts Users on Mobile, Gets Closer to Finally Killing the Thing
It’s been nearly an entire year since we started talking about how Google Hangouts was officially set to disappear. Since then, it seems like we’ve been repeating the same thing every few months, only for Hangouts to stubbornly persist living. If apps could talk, Hangouts would probably declare, “what is dead may never die.”
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How to Get Ready to Switch from Google Hangouts to Google Chat
In 2021, Google Hangouts is fading away and Google Chat is taking its place. So if you’re a seasoned Hangouts user — after all, the service has been around for seven years at this point — what do you need to do to prepare? What’s going to happen to your years of chat logs? And…
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Gchat Is Dead, You’ll Have To Hangout In The Future
As part of Google’s ever-confusing plethora of apps, Gchat was a service that managed to take hold because of its convenience and the fact that it was built into Gmail. Now, the service is scheduled to hit the chopping block. But don’t panic.