Google Meet
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Google Meet screenshot | |||||||||||
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| Initial release | March 9, 2017 | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Google Meet is a video communication service developed by Google. It is one of two apps that constitute the replacement for Google Hangouts, the other being Google Chat. 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.
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.