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What Does Google Hangouts Mean?

Google Hangouts is a set of services combined into a messaging and conferencing platform that evolved from prior services like Google Talk and Google+ Messenger. Promoting Google Hangouts as the premiere example of pioneering in Google Voice services, Google is still supporting this product that was introduced in 2013.

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Techopedia Explains Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts is very useful as a videoconferencing tool. The ability to utilize high-quality video for two or more parties makes this an efficient way to promote things like remote learning, web collaboration and innovative conferencing. From virtual book clubs to different types of classroom activities, Google Hangouts is connecting individuals around the world and advancing how voice and data services serve societies. Google Hangouts and similar tools have significant ramifications for fields like telemedicine, cybereducation and more.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.