[arcanus]

I'm no fan of slack but I don't see this as being competitive.

Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Slack on the other hand has decent search capabilities. Plus, slack-bots are well integrated already. It does not avoid my largest criticism of slack: the inability to save conversation history locally.

This sounds like a late to market slack-clone. What is innovative about this offering?

[chu4n]

Hangouts Chat does indeed have powerful search functionality built-in, as shown in the demo.

Screenshot from TC: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/664cd61...

[curt15]

>Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that a search function seems absolutely basic for a messaging app.

[infogulch]

What search function? Do you mean going to gmail.com and searching "in:chat blah"? Even that is terrible.

[curt15]

To make the UX even more annoying, chats are grouped under a special label that's invisible to the gmail app on Android.