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Group chat and rich emoticons now available in Gmail chat

Posted by Sergey Solyanik, Software Engineer

The new Gmail Seattle team is happy to announce two additions to Gmail’s built-in chat capabilities: group chat and enhanced emoticons.

To start a group chat, click “Group chat” from the “Options” menu when chatting. Enter the names of the people you want to add, and, bingo, you’re in your very own chat room. All the familiar features such as chat archiving and taking the chat off the record still work as well.

You’ll also now notice…