Abstract: An information providing method and system may provide information while conversing with a user through an instant messaging application. The information providing system enables a user terminal to add, as a friend, a software bot which may be a virtual friend configured in an artificial software program through the instant messaging application executed in a user terminal. When the user inputs and transmits a message to the software bot through a conversation session, the information providing system may retrieve an appropriate response corresponding to the message from a database by inputting the message as a query, and may transmit the response to the user terminal, thereby providing the response to the user through the conversation session.

Abstract: A method that uses a processor to provide information, the method includes establishing a conversation session between a terminal and a software bot through an instant messaging application executed in the terminal for an instant messaging service; displaying a map on a screen of the terminal; transmitting a request to the software bot through the conversation session for querying information associated with at least one point selected in the map on the screen of the terminal by an user of the terminal or a region corresponding to the at least one point; receiving the information associated with the at least one point or the region from the software bot through the conversation session; and displaying the received information the screen of the terminal.

Abstract: An information providing method and system that may provide information while conversing with a user through an instant messaging application is disclosed. The information providing system enables a user terminal to add, as a friend, a software bot which may be a virtual friend configured in an artificial software program through the instant messaging application executed in a user terminal. When the user inputs and transmits a message to the software bot through a conversation session, the information providing system may retrieve an appropriate response corresponding to the message from a database by inputting the message as a query, and may transmit the response to the user terminal, thereby providing the response to the user through the conversation session.