Bots will not have as easy of a time handling this.

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Additionally, Goodreads is infested with self-pubbed authors who are not much better than spam bots.

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That means there are tons of people on these sites who are not real people, but bots that exist for the sole purpose of being sold over and over again to those willing to pay for them.

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On July 30, Limited Run, which provides software to enable bands and music labels sell physical products like records, said it was closing its Facebook account after finding that some 80% of the clicks it got during a recent ad campaign on Facebook were likely generated not by real people but by bots.

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The tricky Robosapien folks chose not to display some of their hottest bots at CES Unveiled -- probably because they won't be released in the US for the forseeable future -- but we managed to sweet talk them into hooking us up with some images and a few deets about this unannounced swag.

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Twitter bots tend to follow tons of people, not just people who pay for the privilege.

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All the search engines follow these robot directives, which, while not a perfect security solution, limit the entry points used by the bots and spiders that index the Web.

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Sadly, it seems that the bots are all remotely-controlled for the time being, and not fully autonomous, but we're sure it's only a matter of time before they really get to show what they're capable of.

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This is not a particularly large botnet at all, but the attackers could access at least 6000 bots at any given time.

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