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/ .