the rise of the bot manipulators. bots 4 hire, page-6

Apparently bots are into everything, I find.....Forex trading, bargains on eBay....

"Auction website eBay has been to court in an attempt to suppress a third-party company from using bots to traverse their site looking for bargains; this approach backfired on eBay and attracted the attention of further bots."

I found that at Wikipedia, where many uses of these bots are listed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot

even "chat bots".......hmmmm, the mind boggles......
if one keyed in "female,nubile,38-24-36, not ageist" I wonder what the response would be?

I saw mention of its use in stuffing a ballot box....Kev2010?
With so many applications we will never stamp the damn things out.

GZ