Google Hangouts Reviews

Name: Google Hangouts
Brand: Google
Rating: 4 (51 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

51 reviews
92% willing to recommend

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Hangouts Chat makes it easy for teams to be able to get their work done in one place. From direct messages to group conversations, Chat helps teams collaborate easily and efficiently.

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Google Hangouts is the #6 ranked solution in top Virtual Meetings solutions. PeerSpot users give Google Hangouts an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Google Hangouts is most commonly compared to Zoom: Google Hangouts vs Zoom. Google Hangouts is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 96% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 96% of all views.

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Biswajith Gopinathan

Data Analytics Specialist at GlaxoSmithKline

Jan 30, 2024

I use the product on a quarterly basis in a year, specifically to attend some meetings. I also use the product to help my children attend some online classes The most valuable features of the solution are its ability to allow the sharing of screens and the way it allows a user to take control of…

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Olivier Bourdon

Senior Software Developer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

Jul 6, 2022

We also use Slack. We use a lot of Google solutions as our corporate mail is Gmail. I’ve also used Skype (as a corporate account) and Zoom. That was in previous companies. Zoom was okay, however, as far as my computer was concerned, it was 100% CPU usage, so I don't like it so much. We had some issues sometimes sharing when I had several screens on my desk. Sometimes when you don't share a good screen, it's very difficult to come back. With Skype, it has been a long time since I have used it. However, I recall it was very basic. It doesn't have the same capabilities as seen in Google Hangouts.

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Kanchi Kh

Student at Christ University

Apr 18, 2023

Google Hangouts should add a feature to show how someone connects, such as via a laptop or phone. If you know if someone is using a laptop you can ask them to share their screen. Although it is possible to adjust video resolutions in Google Hangouts, the available options are limited to low resolutions, such as 360p or 480p. It would be beneficial to have additional options for higher quality, particularly for those with high-speed internet connections who could benefit from enhanced video quality. I have faced some technical issues where I could not join a meeting, a meeting ended abruptly, or I was in a meeting room but the host could not see I was there. There was some issue in the cloud.

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Google Hangouts market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Google Hangouts in the Virtual Meetings category stands at 0.4%, marking a decrease of 85.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Mar 26, 2024

Valuable Features

"It's integration with Google is the valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Google Hangouts for me is content sharing."
"The installation part of the product is easy since one generally needs to use a browser to use the product."

Room for Improvement

"The improvement needs to be done as per customer requirements."
"One area where I see room for improvement in Google Hangout is the voice quality during meetings."
"It would be better to have a feature for recording the meetings in Google Hangouts."

Pricing

"I don't need to buy Google Hangouts separately because it comes free with Google Workspace, and it is also available for my personal Gmail ID."
"There is a need to make certain payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product and some other tools that are included in the suite offered by Google. Google Hangouts alone as a product is available for free."
"For individual use, there's no license requirement as such. For storage or some other purposes, if I go beyond 15 GB, then I need to buy something."

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