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Bot

Bot

Short for web-robot, search-bot, robot or info-bot. A program that searches (trawls) the internet for information.

Search engines use bots (search-bot) to gather information that the search engine uses to respond to search queries.

A harvester-bot is used spammers to harvest e-mail addresses from web pages.

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