Also from Mark Oehlert, a link to Google Guru, a chatbot interface to Google's search services. "Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk" (ie., any Jabber/XMPP compliant client). MG Siegler writes, "this is nothing new, but Google does tend to have more information at their disposal than just about anyone else on the planet. So perhaps this chatbot will be more useful than the ones I used in 1997." Still, Oehlert suggests, "A corporate chatbot, chiling as that may sound at first blush, could be a natural and non-threatening way for people to interact with a ton of information. Now tie that chatbot interaction back to the employee's profile in the LMS and...do I need to draw this out?" Yeah, but if my chatbot doesn't know Austin Powers, it's broken.
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