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Robots are a fact of life on the Internet.
If you've used Lycos, Alta Vista, InfoSeek or any other search engine, you've tapped into databases which were generated using robots. Robots are software tools. They are not inherently good or bad. However, poorly written robots can do serious damage to a Web site. Since a robot is an automated program, it can submit HTTP requests to a server at a very, very fast rate.