Google could launch a smart WhatsApp – 01net

Given the success of WhatsApp, Google Hangouts Messenger and Google are still pale. The web giant is therefore seeking to bounce back on the field of mobile messaging. His lethal weapon? Intelligent IM.

This is the Wall Street Journal that has revealed this project. No information on the service name or launch date, but we already know that its operation would be based on the use of a chatbot, a program to communicate with the user.

Users dialogueraient with the chatbot via text messages

Specifically, users could ask questions of the software via text messages. The machine would respond by drawing information on the web. The chatbot would thus become an additional way to access search results without having to go through an engine. The idea would be to propose specific chatbot capable of suggesting relevant sites. Google could use third party programmers to develop them.

At the head of this project for over a year, Nick Fox, vice president of Google Hangouts combining communication services , or Voice Messenger. Also according to the Wall Street Journal , he would have tried unsuccessfully to redeem 200 Labs Inc., a start-up specializing in the chatbot that worked for the Telegram messaging. It already offers to hundreds of chatbots on various topics: weather, images, news …

An intelligent messaging would also allow Google to position themselves to Facebook which launched M, PDA integrated with Messenger able to answer questions formulated in natural language. But the originality of the Facebook system is also based on human assistance to meet the demands of its users. This does not seem to be the case of Google. The battle of intelligent messaging is only beginning

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