What are Bots ?

What are Bots ?

We often hear a word “Bots” but we do not know about this term. Bot word has come from robots.  We can say that Bots are fictitious characters, programmed characters, or pieces of software designed to mimic characters or real players in a video game.

Software Program may also be a bot which is designed to do a specific job  such as gather a listing of websites with the latest news, maintaining a web page or chat, etc. Examples of Computer Hope bots include Zero and Hopebot.

In an MMORPG, a bot generally refers to a third-party application that controls a player's in-game character while they're not at their keyboard, or AFK. Their purpose is to gain experience or valuables through repetitive actions that are sometimes considered monotonous to a player.

Spider is also named as bot.

BOT is often used in chat rooms and other text messages.