Google may drop ‘Hangout’ branding soon as it shifts focus to Meet

Google has been experimenting with its messaging functionality for years. Remember Google Talk? The company over the years has bet on Hangouts only to launch a Meets platform later. Currently, Google has Hangouts and Hangouts Meet. This, however, may change very soon.

According to 9to5Google, the company is going to soon drop the Hangouts branding altogether. It pointed out that the company is now referring Hangouts Meet as Google Meet on its support landing page.

It’s worth noting that Google has often referred Hangouts Meet as just Meet. Google may already be planning to shut down Hangouts by the end of this year. Hangouts was launched as a replacement for G Chat in 2013.