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Fun reading: An exhaustive(?) history of Google's communication tools. There are like five different products with "Hangout" branding.

If Google hadn’t been so obsessed with making messaging special (one way or another) they might have managed to make it good.

Let me help you, if you type `/hangout` command in Slack, it opens google meet...

And if you just type / and find that option in the list it's listed as a "Google+ Hangout"!

GChat, Talk, Duo, Meet, Hangouts... what did I miss?

Allo

Orkut.

Wave

Messages, Voice, Allo (rip)

Also YouTube messaging