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Understanding Bots

Kwami Ahiabenu Bots are in most technologies we make use of. They are not easily discernable but they are running in the background either doing something good like making your online experience better or something as covert as distributing unwanted messages in huge volumes; spamming. Although technologies which simulate human dialogue with a computer or other devices are not new, they are over 50 years. This is increasingly becoming popular and trendy. Computing is more and more turning to the automation of tasks which are structurally repetitive and time-consuming, or impossible for humans to undertake. A common tool used in this way are bots, also known web robots, web crawlers, spiders or chatbots. What can bots do? Bots can be used for good and bad applications. When you send a message to order a product or service and process variety of customer service requests without the intervention of a human being, you are making use of a good bot without realising it. These bots index se