Based on the report of Incapsula in 2014, 56% of the internet traffic was generated by bots. Bots are considered to be automated software applications performing repetitive work in Internet. These programs usually perform the most mundane and time consuming tasks in internet. In this article we are going to present the two faces of bots usage: benefits of properly using the good bots and the awareness and potential protection from the bad bots: content harvesters and comment spammers.
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