If you use Google or Android, prepare to lose this popular functionality

The technology giant has announced that this widely used application will be closed in a few months.


Thanks to being the most successful search engine on the Internet, Google has become a familiar name. But the technology company has also grown up since its inception to include a wide range of other products that people use every day, including theirPopular messaging service and maps the application to translation tools andA web browser. However, although the whole company has added to its long list of services, it is not rare either that certain products had put back over time. Now Google has officially announced that it would close a popular service which it executes for almost a decade in a decision that could also affect Android users. Read the rest to see which application will be offline for good this fall.

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Google has closed hundreds of applications and services over the past two decades.

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Regardless of their importance or influence, technological companies regularly reassess their portfolios and examine which of their products still deserve. In the case of Google, the technology giant has experienced unrivaled growth in all, online tools that have become essential to people around the world. But over time, even some of the most flashy applications in the company are deleted after they become obsolete, are replaced or fail to take off.

As one of Google's most notable products, Google+ was the first big incursion of the company in social media space when it was launched in 2011. However, the slow growth of users and defects of design led the company officiallyfold the network in 2019. And after making the headlines with its launch in 2013,Google glasses was presented as the future of portable material which would revolutionize the way people interact with the Internet in the real world - until the product was rebuilt two years later.

Hundreds of other additional modules, applets, services and software under the competence of the company has also come over the years, including the popular mobile applicationYouTube Go, streaming serviceGoogle Play Music, Highly hyculinte social networking Google Buzz, Google Wave collaboration tool, the new Google Reader and the personalized home page service Google, according to Business Insider. But now, another of the company's popular products should join this list.

Google gets rid of one of its free popular services in the coming months.

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In a company's blog article on June 27, Google has announced that it would close its Hangouts Popular messaging application. The company says that the service will no longer be accessible in November 2022.

The product was initiallyLaunched in 2013 As part of an upgrade to the previous Google Talk application, reports Ars Technica. After having become the default email service for Android phones, the application saw more than 5 billion downloads. But in 2018, the company announced that itReplace the Hangouts with new programs, withdraw it from its paid workspace program in March 2022 before putting it offline for the public this fall.

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Users will now be invited to move on to another messaging application.

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According to the announcement, Google will now start to encourage users to move their conversations to Google Cat. While the messaging application can only take over today, it was launched for the first time in 2017 and was announced as the possibleReplacement of meeting places Since 2019, 9to5google of techniques reports. As of June 27, mobile users are displayed a reading message "It is time to discuss" which deactivates the original hangouts application and forces the transition to the new autonomous chat application or to use the cat in the Gmail application . Those who use hangouts on their office browser will have until July before upgrading messages begin to appear.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Fortunately, Google says it will automatically migrate conversations for most users. However, they warn that "certain conversations or parts of the conversations will not automatically migrate from the cats to the cat. We will send an e-mail to the impacted users with more information around September 2022", according to 9to5google.

Google says that the cat offers even more useful features than hangouts.

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Even if Google is Senting one of its most popular applications of all time, the company was clear that the new application will provide even more useful features for users.

"We have great ambitions for the future of the cat, and in the coming months, you will see even more features such as direct calls, online thread in spaces and the possibility of sharing and visualizing several images" , wrote the company in its blog article. "While we take this last step to bring the remaining users to discuss, we hope that users will appreciate our continuous investment to make the cat a powerful place to create and collaborate."


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