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bot

Definition

Robot. Type of computer program that scours the internet, searching for the information requested (queried) by a user. Bot software automates repetitive tasks such as following all the hyperlinks on a website, thus saving hours or even days of mundane work. Also called crawler, web crawler, web spider.

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