Google Earth
Secret Chatbot on Mars
By emcc | May 22, 2009 | Google
The first thing you have to do is to switch to the Mars view (select View/Explore from the top menu).
When Mars has appeared on your screen you shall search for "the face on mars" without the quotes. You will be sent to a black and white image of the famous face on Mars but a little to the south west of the face there's a little image of a robot head and a caption that says MELIZA. Klick the robot head or the caption and a chatbot will appear.
(Note: A chatbot (also called chatterbot) is a program designed to look like a chat and when you write something in the textbox it searches through its database for a message to send back which means that it responds so in fact you are chatting with a computer.)
