Google loves experimenting with integrating its services with each other. As part of this initiative, the company has already built Google Assistant into its Chrome browser, provided Google Photos with Google Lens object recognition technology, and equipped Gmail with support for Google Calendar and Google Drive storage. Thus, the developers of the search giant were able to expand the functionality of proprietary services, making them more convenient. However, the company does not plan to stop there and is going to build one, but completely new, on the basis of three services at once.
Google wants to create a new messenger, but only for corporations
The new development in question is a messenger. Despite the fact that Google has already made several attempts to create a service for messaging, all of them were created from scratch, and now the company has decided to combine Gmail, Google Drive and Hangouts and create a new product based on them. Now these are three independent services, which, according to developers, can bring much more benefit if they combine their functionality and work out a new use case for them.
Why corporate messengers are needed
Hangouts will form the basis of the future messenger
It would seem, why do you even need to combine services that have so little in common with each other? For ordinary users, perhaps, there is no need, but either corporate. If you have ever worked in a company where they use terms such as deadline, case, customer and others like them, you must have used corporate applications like Slack or Microsoft Teams and you know that it is more convenient to use them. chat on the topic of current projects, exchange attachments and view statistics.
Until now, Google had only Hangouts out of corporate messengers, which was still inferior to the solutions of competitors and could not compete with them. In any case, it never became a corporate standard, despite the fact that Google has a G Suite package that combines many services and offers corporations special terms of service that are different from those offered to ordinary users. Therefore, it seemed illogical to have several separate platforms to work with and not be able to interact with them at once.
New messenger from Google
Obviously, the future Google messenger will be built around Hangouts. This platform will provide users with the ability to communicate with each other, serving as a kind of basis for a new product. Integration with Google Drive, and therefore, most likely, with Google Docs, will allow you to interact with attachments located in the cloud. Gmail is needed here to form appointments, more convenient search for counterparties, and other related actions like email alerts.
When Google releases its service is unknown. According to The Information, which learned about the project, while the development is at an early stage. However, it should be borne in mind that, by and large, Google is only required to combine three or more services together, integrate them with each other, and conduct the necessary tests to ensure that all services can work together smoothly and without interruption. Therefore, we would bet that by the summer the new service will be released.