If your Web site is a digital storefront for your company, people are not the only window shoppers. Specialized software
applications known as bots almost certainly also are taking a look ! and perhaps taking more.
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COMBAT DIGITAL SHOPLIFTING
These automated tools act a lot like human Internet users, but they do everything far
faster, including submitting queries to sites and extracting data from them.
This makes bots ideal for search engines, which use them to crawl the sprawling and
expanding World Wide Web, and to gather copies of the Web sites they find to create
the databases the engines use in responding to queries.
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