By Jon Paris, Senior Director of Product
At Yahoo, we’ve always built experiences at the intersection of search, communications and content to help you connect with what matters most to you. Today, we’re thrilled to announce three new Yahoo-powered bots, available on Kik. We are excited to explore how messaging will change the way that we all discover and engage with information.
Whether you’re planning a weekend outing, dreaming of a Parisian vacation or simply celebrating summer sunshine, check out weather information for multiple cities with Yahoo Weather (@yahooweather). Because messaging is all about sharing, we’ve made it really easy to share weather conditions, brought to life by beautiful Flickr photos, with your friends on Kik.
Yahoo News (@yahoonews) helps you discover, delve deeper and share the stories that interest you most. Just chat this bot to learn what’s trending. We’ll also share a morning and evening news digest with you.
Lastly, you can adopt a pet monkey right on Kik – meet MonkeyPets (@monkeypets). With care your virtual pet will grow and thrive. It’ll also teach you a thing or two about emoji and our beautiful world as it shares selfies from its travels.
You can help us make these bots better by sharing your feedback. Just write “Feedback” to any Yahoo Bot to provide input with our team. But first, try them today by adding @yahoonews, @yahooweather or @monkeypets as friends on Kik! We can’t wait for you to try our first few bots!
Proud to have worked on this with a great team.