BOT

a roBot that usually is a software program that can be good (administering or policing on the network) or bad (causing evil) on the network. Bots commonly are used in real audio chat lines. A WebBot are "smart objects" that can be inserted into web pages to perform tasks that otherwise would require CGI scripting or some other dynamic action programming. WebBots can help set up dynamic chat lines, time image appearances, register and confirm actions, reference annotations, perform calculations, etc. Some HTML editors can be used to create WebBots. Microsoft FrontPage, for example, can be used for: WebBot Confirmation Field component WebBot Include component WebBot Scheduled Image component WebBot Scheduled Include component WebBot Search component WebBot Substitution component WebBot Table of Contents component WebBot Timestamp component One example of a WebBot is the people search engine at http://www.nerdworld.com/ .

Short for robot, a computer program that runs automatically.

Short for robot,a program designed to search the Internet looking for information.

A software robot that serves a search engine by exploring the net,collecting web page addresses and page contents,and following links from them to other addresses to collect still more web information.Also known as a worm or crawler.

A bot is an automated software program that can execute certain commands when it receives a specific input. (Kind of like a ro-bot, get it?) Bots are most often seen at work in the Internet-related areas of online chat (IRC) and web searching. The online chat bots are usually a nuisance. They will do things like greet people when they enter a chat room, advertise web sites, or kick people out of chat rooms with an accompanying nasty message. The web searching bots, also known as spiders and crawlers, search the Web and retrieve millions of HTML documents, then record the information and links found on the pages. They then generate catalogs of the sites they have searched which can later be accessed by a search engine.