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Re:Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet by arcanus on Thursday March 09, 2017 @02:15PM (#13832193)
I'm no fan of slack but I don't see this as being competitive.

Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Slack on the other hand has decent search capabilities. Plus, slack-bots are well integrated already. It does not avoid my largest criticism of slack: the inability to save conversation history locally.

This sounds like a late to market slack-clone. What is innovative about this offering?

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Re:Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet by chu4n on Thursday March 09, 2017 @02:28PM (#13832418)
Hangouts Chat does indeed have powerful search functionality built-in, as shown in the demo.

Screenshot from TC: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/664cd61...

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Re:Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet by curt15 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @02:19PM (#13832264)
>Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that a search function seems absolutely basic for a messaging app.

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Re:Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet by infogulch on Thursday March 09, 2017 @02:27PM (#13832403)
What search function? Do you mean going to gmail.com and searching "in:chat blah"? Even that is terrible.
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Re:Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet by curt15 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @05:32PM (#13834457)
To make the UX even more annoying, chats are grouped under a special label that's invisible to the gmail app on Android.
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