[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bot \bot\, n. zool.
   see bots.
   1913 webster botanic
see also:
bots 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bot
     n : botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse
         or sheep or human

[3] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

bot
     back on topic telecommunication-slang, usenet, irc
     
     

[4] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

bot
     beginning of tape
     
     

[5] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

bot
     broadcast online tv
     
     

[6] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

bot
     build, operate and transfer networke
     
     

[7] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

bot n common on irc, mud and among gamers; from `robot' 1. an irc
   or mud user who is actually a program. on irc, typically the robot
   provides some useful service. examples are nickserv, which tries to
   prevent random users from adopting nicks already claimed by others,
   and msgserv, which allows one to send asynchronous messages to be
   delivered when the recipient signs on. also common are `annoybots', such
   as kissserv, which perform no useful function except to send cute
   messages to other people. service bots are less common on muds; but some
   others, such as the `julia' bot active in 1990-91, have been remarkably
   impressive turing-test experiments, able to pass as human for as long as
   ten or fifteen minutes of conversation. 2. an ai-controlled player in a
   computer game especially a first-person shooter such as quake which,
   unlike ordinary monsters, operates like a human-controlled player, with
   access to a player's weapons and abilities. an example can be found at
   `http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/'. 3. term used, though less
   commonly, for a web spider. the file for controlling spider behavior
   on your site is officially the "robots exclusion file" and its url is
   "http:///robots.txt"

   note that bots in all senses were `robots' when the terms first
   appeared in the early 1990s, but the shortened form is now habitual.


see also:
irc mud nick spider 

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

bot
     
         from "robot" any type
        of autonomous software that operates as an agent for a
        user or a program or simulates a human activity.  on the
        internet, the most popular bots are programs called
        spiders or crawlers used for searching.  they access web
        sites, retrieve documents and follow all the hyperlinks in
        them; then they generate catalogs that are accessed by search
        engines.
     
        a chatbot converses with humans or other bots.  a
        shopbot searches the web to find the best price for a
        product.  other bots such as opensesame observe a user's
        patterns in navigating a web site and customises the site for
        that user.
     
        knowbots collect specific information from web sites.
     
        1999-05-20
     
     
see also:
robot software agent program internet spiders 
web sites hyperlinks search engines chatbot shopbot 
opensesame knowbots web sites 

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