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Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger

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Re: Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger

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I really don't understand why chatting is supposed to be a better interface for something like that. Tinder blew up because they innovated the simplest possible UI. The UI here is broken, notice that after the second "like" the user would have had to scroll up to like another one. Or they would have to memorize some chat commands like "main menu" or "more women".

Re: Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger

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These, in turn, ultimately owe their name to the Library of Alexandria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet#Operations_and_...

Which owes its name to Alexander the Great.

Who in turn owes his name to Alexander II of Macedon.

Re: Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger

#13

Branding it the same name as Amazon Echo's chat agent (also Alexa) seems like trouble...

Even if has no problem with copyright I fail to see how naming something like this the same name as a very popular product can do anything except make it harder to find. Nobody's ever going to find this thing in Google unless they go through pages of results about Amazon's product.

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who in turn owes his name to Alexander II of Macedon.

No, to Alexander I of Macedon. Alexander II was Alexander (III) the Great's uncle.

So what if he was his uncle? People are named after their uncles. Alexander II ruled well before the birth of Alexander III (during the boyhood of his father in fact) and would have been a perfectly logical namesake.
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