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I recently purchased a couple of used Jabber development books through Amazon. I was reading through one of them today and am continually amazed at the flexibility and design of Jabber.

Previously, I posted about a jabber bot I was working on. This got me thinking…since Google is using Jabber for the Google Talk service, how long will it be until Google creates a bot that I can call from within the Google Talk client, say my search query, and get the results in a browser? They’ve got the technology — Google Voice Search. Integrating this from within Google Talk seems like the logical next step! It would “close the loop” as the following article describes:

http://webword.com/moving/googlevoice.html

Oh, and it would be easy to simply instant message the bot to get search results as well…that’s a given.