Microsoft Sends Bot To Search Web
News In preparation for unveiling its own algorithmic search engine, Microsoft's MSN has quietly launched software that will index Web sites, a move that raises questions about MSN's relationship with Yahoo subsidiary Inktomi.
[June 19, 2003, 10:17]
Google Hacks: Google Over IM
White Papers Thanks to the Google Talk and the Google API, one can skip the web site and bring Google Search results directly into the IM client with a Google Talk bot. With a Google Talk bot up and running, one can find search results without leaving the IM...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Ava Find
Downloads The Scout Bot feature lets you discover newly downloaded files instantly without the need to run a search. Ava Find includes free search functionality and includes a 30-day preview of Ava Find Professional features, such as the Scout Bot.
[May 3, 2003, 9:31]
More Info To Go: IM Gets Intelligent
News It will be a "bot" created by New York company ActiveBuddy, which is developing technology that lets popular software for trading short text messages be used to grab information stored on Web sites and computer databases.
[April 26, 2001, 11:59]
Fast Link Checker
Downloads It works like a search engine bot. An advanced tool to find broken links on Web sites. You specify the starting file and Fast Link Checker goes through all pages this file has links to until it checks all links on the site.
[July 28, 2008, 4:31]
Sitemap 4 Traffic
Downloads Sitemap 4 traffic will help Webmasters to build Google sitemap, build Html sitemaps to be uploaded to their Website, Check broken links on their Web site, Backup their Web site files (without server code) and Make their Web site much better to be...
[January 12, 2007, 2:31]
Splogs: Wreaking Havoc In The Blogosphere
News Someone basically scripted a bot to be able to [create] thousands of [fake] sites. The move was designed to doctor search results and boost traffic to those sites by fooling the search-engine spiders that crawl the Web looking for commonly linked...
[October 21, 2005, 16:00]
Bots Snarl Sites As Shoppers Seek PlayStation 2
News One bot called the PS2finder is available for download at PS2bargains, a community site dedicated to helping shoppers find consoles for sale. At SiteExperts.com, the InStockBot is another bot that is popular with those hunting for the PlayStation 2.
[December 8, 2000, 11:54]
Microsoft Details Windows Live 'platform'
News At TechEd, Microsoft executives also showed off a "bot" application on Windows Messenger, where a person typed in questions via the instant messaging program to find out movie times or get help desk support.
[June 14, 2006, 10:35]
IM Bot Will Talk For Cash
News ActiveBuddy is still in negotiations with all of the major IM networks to host the so-called bot on its debut, which is expected mid-February. SmarterChild operates on a natural-language search called "buddy script" developed by ActiveBuddy.
[January 30, 2003, 12:12]
Remote Tool Attacks Windows Servers
News It also acts like an IRC bot, listening to specific channels on the chat network and taking commands from attackers via IRC. The IRC bot is one step removed from a worm and less disruptive. This bot compromises computers using a flaw that Microsoft...
[August 4, 2003, 8:55]
Spyware, Adware, And Virus Guide
White Papers The two software programs suggested by the Ohio University help desk for spyware and adware removal are Ad-Aware by lavasoft and Spy Bot - Search and destroy by PepiMK Software. Spyware - is a term for software that collects personal data like...
[December 16, 2004, 2:00]
Thong-wearing Squash Player Scores On Google
News The number of search requests for the player -- known as the "Lancashire hot bot" -- soared in the week of 2 July compared to the week before. This put "Vicky Botwright" into the "top ten gaining queries" category as shown on Google's new Zeitgeist...
[July 9, 2001, 16:28]
Police Swoop On New Zealand Botmaster
News The swoop is part of the FBI's second phase of "Operation Bot Roast" — the same operation which resulted in four felony charges against 26-year-old Los Angeles security consultant John Schiefer. In Bot Roast II, we see the diverse and complex...
[November 30, 2007, 7:59]
Amazon Offers Cheap Shop Space
News Cassar said Amazon has also revived the "shopping bot" technology it acquired with the purchase of Junglee, which helps consumers look for products elsewhere on the Web. When a consumer types in a search request for the Dave Matthews band, for...
[September 30, 1999, 11:00]
New Bots A Shopper's Best Friend
News A group of shopping bot companies is trying to replicate that experience online. Dash will also offer coupons if it detects you looking for products on search engines. Imagine walking through the mall with a shopping-savvy friend who, when you're...
[November 12, 1999, 9:48]
IRC Hacks: Search The Web With Google
White Papers This essentially means that one can use it to perform Google searches from a Java IRC bot. Searching Google from within one's own application is very easy, thanks to the Google Web APIs. The developer's kit contains a Java library that provides a...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Hotels Price Bot
Downloads We eliminate the need to search major Web sites one by one in order to compare prices and availability. Searching over 30 different hotel reservation Web sites - more than any other price comparison Web site.
[February 9, 2008, 15:46]
