Google offers Hangouts Its personal situation to hold

persevering with the development of product independence from Google+, Google Hangouts now has a dedicated website.

This week, Google launched hangouts.google.com, a web page that gives the entire normal Hangout options, together with voice and video calls and textual content chat.

in the past, computer customers of Google’s free communication device may use the Hangout Chrome app or access it in the course of the Gmail and Google+ interfaces.

All of those options stay. the new web page simply gives the product a landing spot of its own, with a cleaner appear that includes rotating wallpaper photography, a few of which might be photos shared publicly on Google+. the call and chat buttons are displayed prominently in the middle of the web page.

This move is much like fb’s advent of a personal computer residence for Messenger several months ago. It additionally can be viewed as a continuation of Google’s decoupling of features initially tied to Google+, or at least giving customers choices that don’t require the usage of the corporate’s social community.

In may just, it split off its standard pictures feature into a separate app. ultimate month, it eradicated the requirement to use Google+ to sign into other Google products and services, including YouTube.

Google has recently made different improvements to Hangouts. closing week, it released a brand new Android app with streamlined contacts, faster message delivery and improved battery lifestyles. Such options had already been carried out on the iOS app.

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Martin Beck

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