Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by Macha on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:55PM (#25874154)

It was released as a standalone app in 2006 (after having a labs beta period prior) as Google Talk, and integrated into Gmail in 2007. While the widget in Gmail (which was only removed very recently to replace it with a Meet widget!) was labelled Chats, the service itself never was.

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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by squeaky-clean on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:28PM (#25875256)

I think they're actually referring to Google Hangouts Chat

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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by Macha on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:48PM (#25876182)

> chat integrated into Gmail before it was branded Google Talk.

Hangouts chat came wayyyy after Google Talk or even its integration into gmail (I know, it's hard to keep track of the chronology of these Google services, they release 2 new ones a year)

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