Google works on a new messaging app to compete with Facebook
New rumors point to the work that Google would be doing to the creation of a new messaging application A tool not only focused on the usual chats, Rather, it would have artificial intelligence to resolve doubts and questions from the user in the same application. Likewise, the company would spend a year developing this different approach and maybe a little forced, all in order to compete against Facebook in a crowded market and where WhatsApp and Messenger are They deliver to users all over the world.
The information comes from The Wall Street Journal, an American newspaper that has already echoed others rumors about Google and Apple before these companies launched their products, which lends credibility to the media and these rumors. According to his article, Google raised the idea of mixing a common messaging application with its search toolto offer a consultation service in the same tool. The curious thing is that the answers would be given by bots or robots programmed to answer and assist the user. A curious strategy for several keys, but most strange.
At the moment only a few details are known about it. One is that Google would use its search technology in the style of Now on Tap, with which recognize or read all information on the screen to provide intelligent responses or Internet searches, whether information from a restaurant or weather information or any other matter.All this through the user's own conversations. This would allow Google to take social and messaging applications, where it fails to succeed, its unrivaled technology: searches; in addition to taking users to Internet pages where they promote their business of .
The curious thing is that this robot, which is in charge of actively answering the user, will not be alone in the new application of Google Of this Thus, The Wall Street Journal states that the search engine company would open its API (search engine development of applications) to third parties in order to create new bots that serve to answer or assist the user during messages. Something that makes us think that applications of recommendations and restaurant reservations could offer their functions and qualities actively and through the messaging application of itself Google, for example.
With all this, the Mountain View company could once again stand up to Facebook , measuring face to face who can create better assistance through a messaging application And the fact is that the social network is working on a similar tool for your application Facebook Messenger Of course, in the case of Facebook, it has the advantage of a billion-dollar user base However, Google, does not have good experiences in the field of social networks and messaging, leaving the application Hangouts relegated to testimonial use. We will have to wait, then, for Google to present this supposed tool if the rumors are true. Of course, the degree of development of this application, its name or the release date is unknown.
