A bot is a program that runs on a computer 24/7, automating ...

Short for " robot", these are unattended agents that can request web pages from your website, or operate in chat rooms (see "spim")". Most often, in the context of search engine optimization, when we talk about bots, we mean the specialized robots that the search engines use to spider your website for inclusion in their directories.

A robot or fictitious character. Also a software program that gathers listings of websites usually pertaining to very current news events.

Scripts that automate certain tasks - search engine bots visit web pages, save them, and follow links.

Bots (also called agents and spiders) are programs designed to constantly search the Net for new information in order to update search engines (e.g., Alta Vista, HotBot Lycos and WebCrawler).