Google Meet Finally Being Offered as a PWA, Month After Being Bested by Zoom

Messaging and video conferencing sites took off in the last two years, due to how the global pandemic has affected physical meetings and the subsequent rise of video conferencing sites that took the place of physical meetings to bridge the gap between people spread across continents and countries.

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Google’s Meet has always been well regarded, but it got beaten quite fairly by the likes of Microsoft Teams and, more important Zoom, the latter having taken the world by storm and becoming one of the most popular applications of its kind.

Now, it seems that Google is ready to take the fight back to Zoom and try to claw back a bit of its lost ground by making Google Meet a Progressive Web App or PWA, according to Google’s latest post on its Workspace Blog.

Google Meet is Now A PWA on Chromebooks

For those of you wondering as to what a PWA is, it is basically a website that is made to look and behave like normal applications that you install. Users will be able to use them via a click of the list of applications, rather than having to open a website URL on your browser of choice.

It is worth noting that Google Meet’s PWA version fails to add any new or revolutionary features, with Google stating that as a standalone application, it will now be easier to find and use, and it will also streamline the user’s workflow by eliminating the need to switch between tabs.