Bots= automated search program
Do you think it's a good definition 😊?
@realcaseyrollins @Sphinx Take a look at Wikipedia, their Bot (Computing Technology) has quite a few variants.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot#Computing_and_technology
@realcaseyrollins @Sphinx An automated search program, assuming you mean looking at website contents for indexing, would be called a crawler, most likely. Or a spider, going about the web.
@Sphinx I think a bot would have to take some sort of action, like saving data, posting data or communicating with a server or user, not serving data. At that point Google is a bot.