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Bots Now Outnumber Humans On The Web

By Zach Walton February 7, 2014

The Internet is the greatest communication tool that mankind has ever invented. As of June 30, 2012, there were almost 2.5 billion humans connected to the Internet. That number has most assuredly risen significantly since then thanks to the proliferation …

The Bot Pandemic Is Hurting Online Advertisers
By Zach Walton · October 2, 2012
Facebook advertising has had its fair share of problems. Major players like General Motors have pulled ads from the social network claiming that they don’t work. They eventually went back, but others have expressed similar frustrations. One such company, Limited …
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Twitter Tops 500 Million Users; “Users” is a Loose Term, of Course
Bot or Not Lets You Test the Human Element in Any Twitter Account
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Bots Take The Fun Out Of Online Poker
By WebProNews Staff · November 12, 2007 · 1 Comment

The government doesn’t need to kill online poker. Bots will do it for them. Feel like chancing your money with an arithmetic machine? Neither does anybody else.

Business

Fear The Bots For Quality Score
By Dave Davis · July 17, 2007

Since Google added a new layer of complexity to the AdWords system this year in the form of Quality Score, not a lot has been published about how it works or why it does a certain thing.

Confusing Search Engine Bots?
By Richard Hearne · April 3, 2007

There are two primary factors to getting a page ranked – discovery and relevancy. By and large, search engines are clever creatures, but the very best webmasters will always send out the right signals to gently guide the search engines, and in return receive great rankings for their content.

Search engines discover content using their bots (or ‘crawlers’), and determine relevancy (and by extension ranking) using advanced algorithms.

Brand Protection vs. Link Baiting
By Scott Boyd · January 23, 2007

Any publicity is good publicity…

Brand Your Own AIM, But Add Value
By Steve Rubel · March 6, 2006

AOL today is releasing its AOL Instant Messenger code to developers.

Man DDoSed eBay With 20K Bots
By WebProNews Staff · December 28, 2005

The wheels of justice finally turned up a guilty verdict in a 2003 case where an Oregon man, working with others, used a 20,000 PC bot network to hit eBay with a DDoS attack.

Business

Bots, Aggregation and Content Creation
By Darren Rowse · July 8, 2005

There is a helpful post of Richard MacManus over at Read/Write Web that takes a balanced look at the topic of Bots and Content Creation / Aggregation.

Business

Using mod_rewrite against stupid comment spam bots…
By Jeremy D. Zawodny · January 8, 2005

You’d think the comment spammers would be a bit smarter, but apparently not. Over 80% of all attempted spam hits on my site provide no HTTP Referer data.

Risky Tactics That Lure Search Bots Into Your Site
By Garrett French · May 18, 2004

If you’ve got one or a few pages in Yahoo’s index but are having trouble getting more pages indexed one thing that might work is putting links to your deeper, unindexed pages high in the code of the pages that are indexed.

Search Bots Behaving Badly
By Garrett French · May 12, 2004

In a classic bit of Internet history (1998/12/30), a newsgroup member explained the GoogleBot to a poster complaining of its rude behavior.

Foil the Bots – Bypass the Blocks!
By Robert Leggett · March 20, 2003

Bypass the Blocks!

I am on my way to choosing the right o*p*t–i*n mailing list for me! At this time, with only about 1200 names in my database, I manage my list myself. I am glad of my slow, methodical approach. Because -

Bots Now Outnumber Humans On The Web

The Bot Pandemic Is Hurting Online Advertisers

Twitter Tops 500 Million Users; “Users” is a Loose Term, of Course

Bot or Not Lets You Test the Human Element in Any Twitter Account

Much ado about Delicious robots

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