Bot

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Bot may refer to:

In technology:

  • Internet bot, a type of computer program to do automated tasks
    • Botnet, a network of "zombie" computers used to do automated tasks such as spamming or reversing spamming
    • Botsourcing, the assignment of tasks to an automated, or intelligent, programmed agent
    • Computer game bot, a computer controlled player or opponent
  • Alienware Bot, a brand of desktop computer
  • BOTS, a computer game
  • Chatterbot, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with a human
  • Robot, a mechanical device that can perform physical tasks

In other:

  • Bank of Tanzania, Tanzania's central bank
  • Bernard Bot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2006
  • Bot, Tarragona, a small municipality in the Terra Alta, Spain
  • Bote, a legal compensation, and the origin of the phrase to boot
  • Bot Bot, slang for humourous sound effect of being hit in the head twice.
  • Botfly, a harmful insect
  • Bots (band), a Dutch language folk rock group
  • Boten Anna, a hit song in Sweden in the middle of 2006 about an IRC bot

See also:

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