Saturday, February 05, 2005

SmarterChild on AOL IM

I've just today learned about a new thing on AOL Instant Messenger: SmarterChild. Add this screen name to your buddy list and start a conversation with him (or her?) - first you'll be asked some questions, then you'll have all it's resources available to you. What resources? Well, it's a plain text interpreter that will figure out what you're asking and offer answers to your questions. It'll tell you the weather, headlines, sports scores, definitions and synonyms, U.S. And world geology, world facts, and all sorts of other things. It's like having Google available in IM, only different. This is a really cool implementation of a text-only search with the personable front-end of AOL's Instant Messanger. Add SmarterChild to your buddy list and give it a try!