Goodbye Google Chat. Google Chat was officially shut down on June 26, 2017. To continue chatting and video calling, try Hangouts. Learn more about Hangouts. Google Chat, the simple Google Talk chat experience in Gmail, launched in 2005. Turn any conversation into a free video call with just one tap; Talk one-on-one or invite friends for a group chat with up to 10 people; Have fun with Hangouts apps like Draw or Effects*.
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• Google Hangouts supports a wide range of and browsers,. However, if you experience any issues, you may want to try using the latest version of. • A Google Hangouts video call can support up to ten people, so it's a great option for group video chats! If you're just chatting over text, Hangouts supports 150 contacts.
• After 2.5 hours, Hangouts will ask you if you're still in the video call. If you don't respond, the call will end. • In testing the video chat feature where you can invite people to chat, we noticed that invitations were sometimes not received, or if they were, the link provided in the invite didn't seem to connect to the same video chat session that the sender of the invite initiated. • To be sure that your invitation is received, you may want to send a link to the session directly to the recipient via email. On the screen that allows you to invite people, there is a link that you can copy - just paste it into the email to make sure they get the message.
Goodbye to the Google Talk app for Windows The Google Talk app for Windows was shut down on February 23, 2015. If you try to use the Google Talk app, you'll see a sign-in error, and we'll send you an email explaining what's happened.