<story><title>Google Hangouts Chat</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/move-projects-forward-one-placehangouts-chat-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreakyT</author><text>I already find Google&amp;#x27;s handling of their chat software utterly nonsensical, but this one arguably takes the cake for ridiculousness, considering they &lt;i&gt;already have&lt;/i&gt; a chat product called &amp;quot;Hangouts&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;There is definitely no chance of branding confusion there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&amp;gt;  I already find Google&amp;#x27;s handling of their chat software utterly nonsensical, but this one arguably takes the cake for ridiculousness, considering they already have a chat product called &amp;quot;Hangouts&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Apparently this product (&amp;quot;Google Hangouts Chat&amp;quot;) is meant for work-related text chat targeted at businesses (I guess like Slack).&lt;p&gt;Not to be confused with Google Hangouts Meet, which is Hangouts &lt;i&gt;video&lt;/i&gt; chat, but branded for businesses. Google Hangouts Meet is also known as Hangouts Meet, or just Meet, and even their official website can&amp;#x27;t decide on which one to use, or even which one should show up in the Google search results: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;chimeracoder&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;968914718508371970&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;chimeracoder&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;968914718508371970&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Apologies for the self-link, but it&amp;#x27;s easier than reuploading the image).</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Hangouts Chat</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/move-projects-forward-one-placehangouts-chat-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreakyT</author><text>I already find Google&amp;#x27;s handling of their chat software utterly nonsensical, but this one arguably takes the cake for ridiculousness, considering they &lt;i&gt;already have&lt;/i&gt; a chat product called &amp;quot;Hangouts&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;There is definitely no chance of branding confusion there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JorgeGT</author><text>But now you can have &lt;i&gt;five&lt;/i&gt; Google IM apps in your phone! Allo, Duo, Hangouts, Hangouts meet, Hangouts chat... am I missing any? Definitely Franz Kafka is alive and well as Google&amp;#x27;s messaging PM.</text></comment>