Google is preparing the launch of a smart text messaging application that will rival Facebook Messenger, those from Mountain View in dire need of an application competing with that of the most popular social network on the planet.
According to sources inside the company Google, she intends to use her own code-named artificial intelligence system chatbot to offer the users of the future application new functions that Facebook Messenger at the moment he doesn't have them.
Google currently has Hangouts and Messenger applications available for users of its services, but none of them have the popularity of Facebook Messenger and none of them offer similar functions, but Google intends to solve this problem.
According to the information provided now, Google will allow users to send messages to friends or use the artificial intelligence of the application to search for information on the Internet, those from Facebook implementing a similar system in the Messenger application this year.
For its new service, Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., plans to integrate chatbots, software programs that answer questions inside a messaging app, the people familiar with the matter said. Users will be able to text friends or a chatbot, which will scour the Web and other sources for information to answer a question, those people said. It is unclear when Google will launch the service, or what it will be called. A team has been working on the new service for at least a year, led by Google veteran Nick Fox, according to sources. Fox was named VP of Communications earlier this year.
Google's biggest problem is that it doesn't have a social network as popular as Facebook to convince users to use this upcoming application, so it remains to be seen how successful this application could be.
That being said, 2016 will most likely be full of apps that rival Facebook Messenger, but few of them will likely be truly successful.
