GooglyMinotaur was an instant messaging bot on the AOL Instant Messenger network. Developed by ActiveBuddy under contract by Capitol Records, GooglyMinotaur specialized in Radiohead-related information. It was released simultaneously with the band's fifth studio album, Amnesiac in June 2001. The bot preceded ActiveBuddy's more notable and long-lasting creation, SmarterChild, which was released late that month. GooglyMinotaur was named for the character that appears on the Amnesiac album cover.

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  • GooglyMinotaur was an instant messaging bot on the AOL Instant Messenger network. Developed by ActiveBuddy under contract by Capitol Records, GooglyMinotaur specialized in Radiohead-related information. It was released simultaneously with the band's fifth studio album, Amnesiac in June 2001. The bot preceded ActiveBuddy's more notable and long-lasting creation, SmarterChild, which was released late that month. GooglyMinotaur was named for the character that appears on the Amnesiac album cover. While it was ActiveBuddy's first offering, GooglyMinotaur was soon followed by many more chatterbots, especially after the company released an SDK in July 2002. Still a novel concept in 2001, the bot was quite successful; it was on 387,000 buddy lists and it had received more than 36 million messages by November 2001. GooglyMinotaur provided tour information, band facts, MP3 downloads, and assorted exclusive content provided by the studio, Capitol Records, in addition to the idle conversation that typified the chatterbots of that period. In March 2002, GooglyMinotaur was switched off, responding only with the epitaph, "Since his catapult into buddy-hood, GooglyMinotaur has sent about 60 million IM messages to nearly 1 million different people. Always dependable and infinitely wise, Googly seemed fitter and happier up until his very last days. At this time, reports state the cause of death is undetermined."
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  • GooglyMinotaur was an instant messaging bot on the AOL Instant Messenger network. Developed by ActiveBuddy under contract by Capitol Records, GooglyMinotaur specialized in Radiohead-related information. It was released simultaneously with the band's fifth studio album, Amnesiac in June 2001. The bot preceded ActiveBuddy's more notable and long-lasting creation, SmarterChild, which was released late that month. GooglyMinotaur was named for the character that appears on the Amnesiac album cover.
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  • GooglyMinotaur
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