Ask YC: applications of bots/spiders/crawlers

Posted by yearsinrock on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @06:38AM
from the self-post dept.

other than search engine indexing

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Re:Ask YC: applications of bots/spiders/crawlers by brk on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @06:49AM (#124658)

Vulnerability scanning would be one potential example. An intelligent bot can better probe and respond to services running based on OS/Version returned.

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