Tag: bots

May 24, 2022

For the most part, bots and spiders are relatively harmless. You want Google’s bot, for example, to crawl and index your website. However, bots and spiders can sometimes be a problem and provide unwanted traffic. This kind of unwanted traffic […]

September 24, 2021

From customer support bots to social media bots that respond to comments and questions automatically, the age of artificial intelligence in marketing is already here. However, because of how ingrained AI has become in our everyday lives, marketers now have […]

April 19, 2017

As part of their annual F8 developer conference, Facebook has announced a new update for their Messenger platform, with a range of new tools and features designed to get you doing more on Messenger, and to promote the utility of […]

October 7, 2016

A little more than six months ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proclaimed that “bots are the new apps.” Like many tech-proclamations, it turned out to be breathless, partly true and strategically devoid of pesky details. And for most of the […]

June 16, 2016

Do you recall Orion, the cat from the first Men In Black movie? Around his neck hung a marble-size pendant which, to everyone’s surprise, contained an entire galaxy filled with billions of stars. As fantastically sci-fi as that may seem, […]

June 16, 2016

In late 2014 the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) created the New York-based Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) for the purpose of “eliminating fraudulent digital advertising traffic, combating malware, fighting […]

December 17, 2015

May the force be with us! Humans this year took back control of the World Wide Web from those artificial webcrawlers called bots. But according to Web security provider Imperva—which first revealed the dominance of the automatons in 2012—bad bots […]