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Google Talk Guru

Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk.

To start using Google Talk Guru:

1.) Sign into a chat client that supports Google Talk


2.) Send a chat invitation to guru@googlelabs.com or click the "Invite myself to chat with Guru" link below.

Sign in and invite myself to chat with Guru

3.) Find guru in your contact list and send chat queries to guru using the examples below:

Sport scores:score arsenal
Weather:weather Nairobi
Calculate:123 * 45
Currency:120 KES to USD
Definition:define laptop
Translation:translate earth to French
Web result:web Mount Kenya
Help:help translate

For Example :
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