In January this year, we mentioned how some developers in India were using WhatsApp as a search engine through a WhatsApp bot. The service has been tinkered with around the world but has been popularised by Indian developers since last year. It has even attracted some users in Zimbabwe.
By adding a specific number to a WhatsApp group or creating one for that number specifically, users are able to prompt this bot for responses to certain queries such as Wikipedia searches that are prompted by typing Wiki. Continue Reading
