Too busy to keep up with your friends? There’s a chat bot for that. We’ve all been there. The deluge of information on Facebook is why I no longer bother to check the social network ...

It was a joint project between Stack Overflow and Microsoft, and it relies on a few different aspects of Microsoft Cognitive Services and Microsoft Bot Framework, Stack Overflow said in a blog post.

Eighth-grader Kortney Anthony and her classmates created a chat bot for Greater Memphis Chamber’s website. As you type a question, ‘GMC bot’ quickly lets you know that GTW students created it.

By nurturing an ecosystem of chat bots, Facebook could get outside developers to enhance Messenger’s value and make it more addictive.

If Microsoft and other chat platforms work together to create a common search engine to help people find bots, it could mean that someday we see the emergence of something like a Bing for bots.