"Bot." It's not uncommon to be familiar with the term, but have trouble defining it. What is a bot, and why should you care? In the broadest of senses, the type of bot we're referring to is simply any ...

Interview with Tom Howe, Director of Insights Engineering at Hydrolix, on how companies and consumers should view bots as the ...

From internal tools for research, proactive cybersecurity monitoring or knowledge-sharing to public-facing tools that can answer common customer questions, recommend products and open up self-service ...

Bots get a bad rap, but they’re not all bad. Without web crawlers, for example, search engines couldn’t index new content on the internet. But what is bad is when verification providers, including ...

Ray Fowler is Director at digital transformation consultancy Transform. Ray honed his career in operational roles within some of the largest UK retailers before moving across to consulting, eventually ...

While you want to make most content as easy as possible for Google to crawl, there are certain instances in which you'll want to block bots. For the most part, bots and spiders are relatively harmless ...