Google Labs has just launched a new service Google Talk Guru – an instant message client that answers your basic questions like sports results and weather forecasts by sending instant messages.
Google Talk Guru is an experimental service launched by Google that allow you to get basic information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat once you add the bot to your contacts list.
Here is how Google Talk Guru works. It require users to add guru@googlelabs.com to their list of friends in messenger. It works on all popular messengers that support Google Talk. Once you add it your list you can send the chat messages or queries with a pre-defined set of commands to the bot to get answers to your questions. You can use the following examples:
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”
For an example “weather Mohali” query will return the information about the weather in Mohali. You can’t use natural language to chat with Google Talk Guru. It only support pre defined syntax listed above. It just saves your time by getting the basic information in your IM instead of searching it in browser.
So what do you think of this new service by Google? Do let us know by comments.
[via Mashable]
Great info Simran – I really like this news thanks.
Today, we can get basic data from google talk guru. Thanks Simran:-)
waiting to see how it works out and how many answers can actually google get through it and beat yahoo answers
It’s not a service like Yahoo Answers. It’s simply a good bot that answer our basic queries so it has no competition with yahoo answers i think.
Google Talk Guru is a nice new service launch by Google
Wow, now I can even talk to a Guru in instant messaging systems! Very cool… hope the guru can also answer more advanced questions, such as how to make money online, or how to crack 20000 visitors a day to my website. Hehe… good stuff!
Awesome service initiated by Google.. Loving to have this in my buddies list..
Google is good. Keep on rolling out exciting and interesting services. Google Talk Guru is one of them!
again a bot from google . why dont they hire to reply to actual humans
I think humans can’t reply to so much queries as robots can do.
It’s really good service that will allow you to get basic information on here 🙂 yeah will see 🙂
its a great superb service by google, now we dont need to visit google.com every time, in IM we can find answers easily,
Its not answering service @jailbreak
this tool is to help users to save time