Let’s first acknowledge that Gchat was never officially called Gchat. Launched in February 2006, Google named it Google Talk, refusing to refer to it by its colloquial name. For anyone mourning ...

The first sign that Google didn’t love Gchat the way consumers did was in the name. We can talk about Gchat all day, but Google never officially acknowledged that as the service’s title or ...

Gchat was born the day after Hurricane Katrina: Aug. 24, 2005. The latter made landfall in Louisiana a few days later, thrashed cities and killed people and became shorthand for catastrophe and ...

What Is GChat?. If you use Google products like Gmail, you may have heard of something called GChat. Technically speaking, GChat is not the name of a Google product; GChat is actually a slang term ...

How Gchat Is Destroying Your Productivity Your favorite way to communicate at work may be making it harder to focus.

Enjoy GChat while you still can, because soon Google will be replacing it with Google Hangouts.

Gchat became another sort of lifeline during my time as a stay-at-home parent. I no longer had an employer standing over my shoulder or restricting what I downloaded. But some of my friends still ...

Although everyone and their grandmother has accepted the (not trademarked!) colloquialism “Gchat” much in the same way the word “retweet” originated, Google insists that the official term ...

Do you even remember a time before Gchat? Before you could just glance to that little sidebar to the left and click who-so-ever you chose to be the target of your ranting? Be it work-, friend ...

Starting in June, Google is saying good-bye to one of its most beloved products, Gchat. Officially, the chat app’s name was Google Talk; Gchat was just what hip, personal-computer owners started ...

As part of Google’s ever-confusing plethora of apps, Gchat was a service that managed to take hold because of its convenience and the fact that it was built into Gmail. Now, the service is ...

Gchat Is a Noble Pursuit: Tao Lin’s Modernist Masterpiece True, his characters are young people living in Brooklyn. And he writes about the Internet. But we should stop calling ...