Once Google is the nexus for the greater part of the world's communications, the project could be renamed Google Babel. We can then prepare allegations of hubris, and the possibility of them exploiting it for sinister purposes.

"The shadow of that hyddeous strength / sax myle and more it is of length."

I tend to agree 'Babble' has bad connotations for serious uses. But, we might have said the same thing about 'Twitter' or 'Yammer' or 'Hangouts'. There's a definite trend of words with slight/playful/unserious undertones proving useful as brands that still manage to appeal in serious situations.

GChat is already a well known brand name that most people view positively, hopefully they continue using that name.

I get it. It's like the fish.