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A bot is a computer program that surfs the web in much the same way as a human user; however, bots are automated. A bot can access a large number of sites much more quickly than a person. One might be surprised at how many uses there are for bots, both good and bad. HTML-based bots have direct access and close ties to the HTML that makes up web sites, and thus often break when changes occur to the web sites they were designed to access. Therefore, modern sites whose designers want to allow programmatic access typically offer web services that provide specific data on request, reducing or eliminating the need to parse the HTML to extract content.

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Date:Jul 2007

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