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Google Chat

Google Chat proper noun: a communication service developed by Google: Google Talk or Google Hangouts.

Proper noun

Google Chat

  1. (colloquial, historical) A communication service developed by Google: Google Talk or Google Hangouts.
    • There’s Text Message in Chat (send text messages to your friends’ cellphones from within Google Chat or Gmail); […]2009 February 25, David Pogue, “Geniuses at Play, on the Job”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2011
    • Zopim is a real-time customer-support tool that we’ve found to be extremely flexible to use. It has an online dashboard and a plug-in for Gmail so that you can provide support through Google Chat.2013 May 1, Adriana Herrera, “One Entrepreneur’s Favorite Start-Up Tools”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2013

Examples of Google Chat in a sentence

  • Later came Google Chat, a mobile extension of Google’s instant messaging app from Gmail, which morphed into Hangouts.2014 November 13, Samuel Gibbs, “Google Messenger: another reminder of a confused Android app approach”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The...
  • Its popularity as a communication tool waned with the rise of text messaging, Google Chat and social networking sites.2017 October 6, Associated Press, “AOL shuts down Instant Messenger after 20 years of online chat”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The...

Questions about Google Chat

What does Google Chat mean?
Google Chat means a communication service developed by Google: Google Talk or Google Hangouts.
How do you use Google Chat in a sentence?
Later came Google Chat, a mobile extension of Google’s instant messaging app from Gmail, which morphed into Hangouts.
What part of speech is Google Chat?
Google Chat is a proper noun.

Words near Google Chat in the dictionary

  1. googlability
  2. googlable
  3. google
  4. Google bomb
  5. Google bombs
  6. Google Chat
  7. Google debunker
  8. Google debunkers
  9. Google Doc
  10. Google Docs
  11. Google Doodle

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