Google Meet
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Google Meet is a video communication service developed by Google.[6] It is one of two apps that constitute the replacement for Google Hangouts, the other being Google Chat.[7] It replaced the consumer-facing Google Duo on November 1, 2022, with the Duo mobile app being renamed Meet and the original Meet app set to be phased out.[8]
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Initial release | March 9, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-03-09) | ||||||||||
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Platform | Android, Android TV, ChromeOS, Fuchsia, iOS, iPadOS, Web | ||||||||||
Predecessor | Google Duo (Google Hangouts) | ||||||||||
Type | Communication software | ||||||||||
License | Freemium | ||||||||||
Website | meet |
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google announced Meet was to be made available to all users, not just Google Workspace users, in which it previously was. The use of Meet grew by a factor of 30 between January and April 2020, with 100 million users a day accessing Meet, compared to 200 million daily users for Zoom as of the last week of April 2020.[9][10][11]