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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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