Bot

Bot meaning in English

Bot

What is a bot?

A bot (alternately spider, crawler,) is a software application that runs automated tasks over the internet.

Common search engine bots

Google's main bot for web crawling is Googlebot.

Bingbot is Bing's primary bot.

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