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Sorry, I should have been clearer.
There are a variety of robots ('bots) that work the interwebs. Spiders, like Zen said, then there are ones that spam sites. Quora, for example. You see an incendiary or inane question and follow it to the questioner and find they joined a month earlier and have asked 3000 questions. That's a 'bot. Quora could stop that sort of thing pretty easily, but that looks like traffic, and they use that to their rate to sell advertisers.
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