Google embraces chatbots


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 31 May 2016

An attendee walks past a sculpture during the Google I/O 2016 developers conference in Mountain View, California May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Google is getting in on the "bots" game, joining Facebook and Microsoft. 

The search giant plans to launch a new messaging app called Allo, Google representatives announced at the company's I/O developer conference recently. The app incorporates Google's intelligent assistant technology and is to allow users to accomplish more things without having to launch other apps. 

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