Most Useful Google Talk Bots

What are Google Talk Bots ?
They are Just like your friends.You add them to your Google Talk like the way you add friends.The only difference being they are always available to help you with different services.They are also called chatbots.

According to wikipedia
A chatterbot (or chatbot) is a type of conversational agent, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods.Such computer programmes can also referred to as Artificial Conversational Entities within some specific contexts. Although many chatterbots appear to intelligently interpret human input prior to providing a response, many simply scan for keywords within the input and pull a reply with the most matching keywords or the most similar wording pattern from a local database. Chatterbots may also be referred to as talk bots, chat bots, or chatterboxes.

Given below is my favourite list of bots that help me do things easily.

1.url@askme.im :-This is a URL shortener using bit.ly.Just paste the URL you want to shorten and hit Enter.

2.twitter@askme.im :-Add this to post directly to your twitter account.
Askme.im provides a lot of interesting bots such as reminder@askme.im for reminders ,calc@askme.im for calculations .You can get the full list here.

3.nezhabot@gmail.com :- iNezha helps you subscribe and read feeds inside Google Talk and does many other things.You can find all the commands by typing "?" or "help" in your chat window.You can set the alert interval ,set your preferred language and Time Zone among many other things.

4.im@ibnalerts.com :-If you are in India and want to catch up with the latest news then this one will help you.This is from ibnlive .Type "help" and you will get all the options.

5.Translation bots :-This service is provided by google to help you with translation.For example ,if you want to translate from English to Arabic then you will add en2ar@bot.talk.google.com as a friend and send the word for translation.You can get the complete list of translation bots here.

Note:you can get your whole conversation translated by inviting a bot to a group chat with a friend.

6.Transliteration bots :-This service is from google and is different than Translation bots.You can type the language you are comfortable with and the bot will convert it to the required character.Currently this is available for a few Indian languages.

Note:you can get your conversation transliterated by inviting a bot to a group chat with a friend.

7.Pingdotfm@gmail.com :- This bot from ping.fm helps you if you are into social networking and micro blogging.This lets you update your status at multiple sites simultaneously.

8.digg@bot.im :- This will get you all the top stories from digg.Just type help to get started after adding.

9.lookup@bot.im :-This bot will help you query dictionary for words.

10.searchguy@bot.im – This bot will search the word provided by you and present the result in the chat window.

You can find some more useful Google talk bots from labnol ,blogsworld ,techie-buzz ,avinashsonee.