Most of the information in this post is obsolete as it seems Messages had a bug prior to gTalk being discontinued. I really miss it because I hate having to visit or every time I want to interact on hangouts. I bet if enough people request the feature, we'll see client support for Google IM return in a future version of Messages. You can submit a feature request to reinstate some method of Google service chat IM here. It seems all the API technology is already available and that Messages and other clients merely need to add support in future versions of the messaging clients. I submitted a feature request to add support in a future version of messages. gTalk (2005-2017) was the precursor to Hangouts though it seems Hangouts later had backward support for gTalk which is why IM clients using gTalk still worked up until some time last year. It seems Messages 11.0 (the one I'm using with 10.13.5 on late 2009 MacBook) no longer has support for any functionality whatsoever with Google services. Messages/iMessage/iChat used the gTalk service to send and receive hangouts messages. As of some time in 2017, gTalk is no longer available.
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