It seems GTalk chat bots has caught the fancy of job sites in India. After Naukri, Timesjobs too has launched it’s GTalk bot that enables one to search for jobs.
Call it a herd mentality, but the good part is that majority of classified sites in India have relied on traditional experience – and distribution was always via offline mode.
Given GTalk’s penetration in emerging markets, it is becoming a significant distribution platform play – but majority of companies have banned usage of IMs at work premise. So how about an email based solution (on the lines of Rediff’s WebInMail) – though privacy remains an issue there.
What’s your opinion? What sort of distribution strategy will work for job sites? Should local search players also join the bandwagon?
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Interesting
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It is herd mentality. Makes me sad. Now I am gonna go and talk to my chat buddy at timesjobs and naukri
Yup the chater bots are growin in number and now its a changing the course of web2.0
But still have to add on that out of these there is only one First Entrants in the chatty world which have gone way and miles ahead of these short and not much user friendly bots provided by Naukri and TimesJobs………
Will not tell you the name of the first entrants but they definitely are professional in this field of research and development on chat bots
Go on search for it ……lol!!!!!!
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Chat bots are more useful than search engines and websites where the information desired is less and complete in itself.