It's crazy how little Google's marketcap benefits from things like this. Zoom's here sitting on 75B (~1/15th Googs) as we speak and Google Meet probably isn't even legitimately used in pricing Google. Wonder what Google's market cap would be if each individual service got the VC future growth pricing.
To Googlers working on this: thank you! My work life shifted from 5% Meet to 80% Meet and it only got better during the crisis. Never noticed deteriorated performance.
Literally adding Google Meet URLs to Zoom meeting invites in Google Calendar, so half of a meeting's members went to the wrong room is kinda a bad way to scale your product: <a href="https://mspoweruser.com/googles-latest-audacious-growth-hack-sending-google-meet-links-along-with-zoom-invites/" rel="nofollow">https://mspoweruser.com/googles-latest-audacious-growth-hack...</a>
I'd love to hear the war stories about the network capacity plan violations that were involved here. There's no way they had 30x headroom in their 90-day capacity forecast. The organizational ability to reach in and shuffle up the network capacity allocations may be even more interesting than the technical items discussed here.
Every web-based video chat I’ve used (including Google Meet and Slack) makes the fans on my decently-specced 2018 MacBook Pro spin up like it’s about to take off. I’ve tried Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Zoom (via the native Mac app) doesn’t do this. Does anyone know why browser-based video is so resource intensive?
I think the point of this article is how the Meet team handled the increase usage, not whether if this product is better of worst than competitors.<p>I bookmarked the article that can be seen as an engineering approach to solve a problem like this.
When did Google meet get better? I used it actively in April had a some really bad customer meetings on it (it seemed to be bandwidth heavy though that is anecdotal). I decided on Zoom and haven’t really looked back. I also was irritated at the Google Meets browser compatibility issues as I mostly use Firefox.
30x growth only? My wild gutted is that at least 1 billion Gmail App installations must have been updated to integrated Google Meet versions. So I expected much higher jump.<p>Just yesterday, we were asking people in our school WhatsApp Group to install Teams app. As for Google Meet, just update!!!