Google Labs has initiated a new project called Google Talk Guru, a so-called search engine chatbot. It sounds promising; however at this stage you can only enquire about 7 topics:
Sport scores: score arsenal
Weather: weather Nairobi
Calculate: 123 * 45
Currency: 120 KES to USD
Definition: define laptop
Translation: translate earth to French
Web result: web Mount Kenya
Help: help translate
In addition, you will have to follow Google’s ‘lines’, because if you don’t, Google Talk Guru won’t understand your question, see the currency conversion enquiry example above.
According to Google this , ‘application [is] intended for chat (IM) users, including users using chat clients on low-end phones, allowing them to answer simple web queries from the context of their chat application.’
How to get started:
, ‘First invite .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to chat, and then send queries via your chat client….Send “help” for more information.’
