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Google is building a new mobile-messaging with bots
Google is building a new mobile-messaging service that taps its artificial intelligence know-how and so-called chatbot technology to try to catch rivals including Facebook Inc.
For its new service, Google, plans to integrate chatbots, software programs that answer questions inside a messaging app.
Google is pursuing a similar goal with its messaging service, the people familiar with the plan said. Instead of typing a query into Google's search engine, users will type questions as text messages, to which chatbots will respond. Google will likely let outside developers build chatbots to run on the service, one of the people said. Google would steer users to specific chatbots, much as its search engine directs users to relevant websites. The move is strategic, because messaging apps and chatbots threaten Google's role as the Internet's premier discovery engine.
Full article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-new-smarter-messaging-app-1450816899
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Google is building a new mobile-messaging with bots
Google is building a new mobile-messaging service that taps its artificial intelligence know-how and so-called chatbot technology to try to catch rivals including Facebook Inc.
For its new service, Google, plans to integrate chatbots, software programs that answer questions inside a messaging app.
Google is pursuing a similar goal with its messaging service, the people familiar with the plan said. Instead of typing a query into Google's search engine, users will type questions as text messages, to which chatbots will respond. Google will likely let outside developers build chatbots to run on the service, one of the people said. Google would steer users to specific chatbots, much as its search engine directs users to relevant websites. The move is strategic, because messaging apps and chatbots threaten Google's role as the Internet's premier discovery engine.
Full article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-new-smarter-messaging-app-1450816899
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WSJ
Google Plans New, Smarter Messaging App
Google is building a new mobile-messaging service that taps its artificial intelligence know-how and so-called chatbot technology to try to catch up with rivals.
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BTW, do you remember the acquisition attempt that Pavel Durov was talking about at Techcrunch?
This answers the question about that:
In October, Mr. Fox offered to buy 200 Labs Inc., a small startup that builds chatbots, but the firm declined the offer, according to two people familiar with the situation. 200 Labs developed a marketplace and rating service for chatbots on Telegram, a messaging app that offers hundreds of chatbots, devoted to subjects like the weather, image search, news and dating. 200 Labs is working on technology that will choose the best chatbot to respond to a request.
They are talking about http://storebot.me/
#google #bots #messaging #storebot
BTW, do you remember the acquisition attempt that Pavel Durov was talking about at Techcrunch?
This answers the question about that:
In October, Mr. Fox offered to buy 200 Labs Inc., a small startup that builds chatbots, but the firm declined the offer, according to two people familiar with the situation. 200 Labs developed a marketplace and rating service for chatbots on Telegram, a messaging app that offers hundreds of chatbots, devoted to subjects like the weather, image search, news and dating. 200 Labs is working on technology that will choose the best chatbot to respond to a request.
They are talking about http://storebot.me/
#google #bots #messaging #storebot