Review: Update your knowledge about the Internet
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2013
Marcus Eigh writes about so many topics so well that it seemed to this reader that if his other books about health and nutrition etc as so well presented, why not try one that seems like a foreign language and see if it opens any doors.First a bit of introduction for the very word `bot' (because I had no clue): `Web Bot is an Internet Bot computer program whose developers claim is able to predict future events by tracking keywords entered on the internet. It was developed in 1997, originally to predict stock market trends. The creator of the Web Bot Project, Clif High, along with his associate George Ure, keep the technology and algorithms largely secret and sell the predictions via the website. An Internet bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file called robots.txt, containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey or be removed. In addition to their uses outlined above, bots may also be implemented where a response speed faster than that of humans is required (e.g., gaming bots and auction-site robots) or less commonly in situations where the emulation of human activity is required, for example chat bots. Bots are also being used as organization and content access applications for media delivery. Webot.com is one recent example of utilizing bots to deliver personal media across the web from multiple sources. In this case the bots track content updates on host computers and deliver live streaming access to a browser based logged in user.'Now on more solid ground, reading Marcus Eigh's book is an eye-opener. He brings to the reader a number of automated online marketing tools meticulously described and accompanied by very useful screenshots and careful instructions. His information on web macros used for marketing tasks and the traffic automation software he brings to our attention are valuable and inordinately useful - once mastered. So again this bright young man has popped the cork off a fresh bottle of information that promises to start the new year with a bang. Grady Harp, December 13