OAKLAND, California - Google will allow business and education users on Gmail.
com to directly take calls on its video conferencing tool Meet starting Thursday, a new feature being offered as the Alphabet Inc unit seeks to capitalize on security and other concerns with rival services.
Other functionalities will be added later this month, Soltero said. Meet will offer a layout displaying up to 16 call participants at once, resembling a popular option on rival Zoom that its users have compared to a grid in the opening sequence of American TV show "Brady Bunch." Google announced last Thursday that Meet, which is available on a desktop browser or through mobile apps, was adding 2 million new users per day and had more than 100 million education users across 150 countries.
Google last month gave educators greater control over who could join calls, weeks before Zoom introduced similar features to curb a practice dubbed "Zoombombing" in which strangers effectively hacked into meetings and classes to disrupt them.
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