Google has changed the name of its Hangouts Meet to Google Meet.
The change was made known yesterday in a Google Cloud blog post made by two of Google’s directors of product management, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, and Smita Hashim.
The blog post highlights several privacy measures that Google Meet has put in place to ensure that remote meetings are not hijacked. Also, some support pages had been updated with the new title as well.
According to The Verge, Google confirmed that it has officially changed the service’s name. Google also confirmed that Meet is an independent part of G Suite, the portfolio of business services that also includes brands such as Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Drive. Hangouts Chat, the text-messaging arm of the Hangouts brand, is also part of the suite.
The change is coming at a time the service is experiencing a surge in usage as workplaces have had to move their meetings online due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Google Meet’s usage is now 25 times what it was at the beginning of the year and it also revealed in March that the company is accumulating 2 million users daily.
