Google Meet product overview

Google Meet, formerly Google Hangouts, is an enterprise-grade online video conferencing platform. It allows users to initiate and interact via multiple communication channels such as text, voice, and video chats. Anyone with a Google Account can create an online meeting with up to 100 participants and meet for up to 60 minutes per meeting. Businesses, schools, and other organizations can take advantage of the tool’s advanced features, including meetings with up to 500 internal or external participants.

Google Meet enables individuals to host secure video meetings. Business owners and larger enterprises can also add premium capabilities, including Q&A, attendance reports, live streaming, and advanced security to grow, run, and protect their businesses.

The software takes the headaches out of joining a video call at work. Users can set up a meeting and share a link without worrying whether teammates, clients, or customers have the right accounts or plug-ins. With a fast, lightweight interface and smart participant management, Google Meet makes multi-person video calls a breeze.

Pros of Google Meet

The platform regularly undergoes independent verification of its security, privacy, and compliance controls. It achieves certifications, attestations of compliance, or audit reports against standards around the world.
It enables organizations to live stream events like town halls and sales meetings for up to 100,000 viewers within their domain.

Cons of Google Meet

Users reported experiencing audio disconnection during meetings.
Google Meet offers limited integrations and bots.

Breakdown of core features

Unlimited number of meetings

Users can connect with anyone—coworkers, clients, classmates—as often as they’d like with Google Meet. The application lets users invite up to 100 participants to a meeting. Invited individuals need to sign in with a Google Account to join the meeting for added security.

Compatible across devices

Google Meet works on any device. Participants can join a meeting from their desktop/laptop, Android, or iPhone/iPad. Users working from home can also participate from Google Nest Hub Max. Furthermore, for organizations that need conference room support, Google Meet offers high-quality hardware options.

Messaging with participants

This video conferencing app makes meetings more engaging with live messaging during calls. Users can share files, links, and other information with participants. Messages are only available during the conference.

Screen sharing

Google Meet allows users to share their screens during meetings and choose what to share with other participants. If a user doesn’t want to share their whole screen, the app gives them the option of sharing a specific browser window, application, or document. Videos are also shareable with other participants using the screen-sharing feature.

(Last updated on 03/30/2022 by Liz Laurente-Ticong)