Google has tried and failed to reinvent messaging, email, and social networking several times in the past decade, including Google+, Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Messenger, and Google Hangouts. They have to win and be the dominant player in messaging.” “Messaging is a subset of the Internet where Google is not strong. “All users care about is a convenient way to find what they are looking for and if Google isn’t in front of the consumer that is a problem for them,” said Scott Stanford, co-founder of venture-capital firm Sherpa Capital, in the article. The idea is to provide the answer from within the context of a conversation without having to exit that conversation at any point.

The report said that Google plans to integrate chatbots, which answer user queries from within a messaging app after searching the Web for information.

A couple of news items from Google today: First, the company is reportedly working on a new kind of artificial intelligence-based messaging service, in an attempt to compete with Facebook's WhatsApp and Messenger, according to the Wall Street Journal (Opens in a new window).

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