Google is planning a teleconference service with ties to Hangouts, Gmail and other services. It's been planned since 2011, according to searches from Phandroid, embedded in code now used for Google's communication services.

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GMeet, or Google Meeting, will feature a set of normal Google applications tailored to business. It should allow businesses and organizations to stay in contact without having to switch to a new interface like IBM's Verse.

It's not clear when Google plans to launch it. The original finder, Florian Kiersch, claims GMeet is being used by Googlers as an internal program, meaning its either in testing or only to be used internally for projects.

Outsiders can be invited to the program by a Googler but it's unavailable for the general public. Google hasn't launched any private beta on the service as far as we know, considering domains for Google Meeting and GMeet lead to nothing.

Telecommunications would be a big step in Google's plan to not only take over personal services but businesses, as well. Gmail for Business was the first step with other services like Drive and Docs also offering some business features.

It would pit Google against Facebook, which is also building a platform dedicated to business. Facebook's platform would add all of the personal features like photo and status uploads, alongside business applications like conferences, projects ends and team group chats.

Google has not been dedicated to enterprise users due to the lack of adverts on most business applications. Since Google's own services normally don't come with a price tag, it makes it hard to revamp the system with a subscription or down-payment option.

This would be one of the first major moves to offer this type of service, and would connect with Gmail and Drive for Business. The question is can Google really compete with companies like IBM, Microsoft, Cisco and HP -- companies that have invested billions into the enterprise sector and offer the full package in terms of services, analytics and systems.

If it can, then Google once again takes over the market, but we've seen many of Google's services fall into the category of junk waiting to be removed in the next spring cleaning.

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