Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: The day dreaded by stubborn office workers around the country has finally arrived. At some point today, Google will replace its Google Talk feature in Gmail -- known colloquially to most of the world as Gchat -- with Google Hangouts. The reasoning: Google's announcement of the switch back in March touts Hangouts' better features and integration with other Google products over the barebones Gchat, which launched way back in 2005.

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Hangouts doesn't have specific contacts

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad it contains a bunch of people I don't want to talk to over chat.
GTalk contained a specific list of contacts I cared to talk to over chat (like AIM/MSN before it).
I don't use hangouts, I don't like hangouts.

and still no way to search through Hangouts

[urbster1]

other than in Gmail on a desktop PC browser. why no search feature in the Hangouts app, Google? for some reason I thought you were supposed to be good at searching

Re:stubborn?

[jdavidb]

I connected to google talk via pidgin via xmpp for years, up until the announcement came out that google talk was being replaced with hangouts. I think actually you can still connect to hangouts with xmpp, too.