BOTS !!

       What Is a BOT ?

  





Bot is a short name for "Robot" and also known as- "internet bot". Bots are automated, which means they run according to their instructions without a human user needing to manually start them up every time. Bots often imitate or replace a human user's behavior. Typically they do repetitive tasks, and they can do them much faster than human users could.

An organization or individual can use a bot to replace a repetitive task that a human would otherwise have to perform. In general, more than half of internet traffic is bots that interact with web pages, talk with users, scan for content and perform other tasks.

Some bots are useful, such as search engine bots that index content for search or customer service bots that help users. Other bots are "bad" and are programmed to break into user accounts, scan the web for contact information for sending spam, or perform other malicious activities. 


  • Types of bots 👇

There are numerous types of bots, all with unique goals and tasks. Some common bots include:

  • A chatbot -- which is a program that can simulate talk with a human being. One of the first and most famous chatbots (prior to the web) was Eliza, a program that pretended to be a psychotherapist and answered questions with other questions.
  • Social bots -- which are bots that operate on social media platforms.
  • A shopbot -- which is a program that shops around the web on your behalf and locates the best price for a product you're looking for. There are also bots such as OpenSesame that observe a user's patterns in navigating a web site and customize the site for that user.
  • A knowbot -- which is a program that collects knowledge for a user by automatically visiting Internet sites to retrieve information that meets certain specified criteria.
  • Spiders or crawlers (also known as a web crawler) -- which are used to access web sites and gather their content for the indexes in search engines.
  • Web scraping crawlers -- which are similar to crawlers but are used for data harvesting and extracting relevant content.
  • Monitoring bots -- which can be used to monitor the health of a website or system.
  • Transactional bots -- which can be used to complete transactions on behalf of a human.
Bots may also be classified as good bots and bad bots, or in other words, bots that will not harm the system and bots that pose threats and can harm the system.




Bots can be used in customer service fields as well as in areas like business, scheduling, search functionality and entertainment. Using a bot in each area brings different benefits. For example, in customer service, bots are available 24/7 and increase the availability of customer service employees, allowing them to focus on more complicated issues.






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