What do we know about bad bots?

In 2016, approximately 185 million new Internet users went online, with the vast majority of these coming from nations like India. This represents a huge increase in the market. However, while the Internet population continues to grow, there has also been an increase in bots as well. The word "bot" covers a wide variety of automated programs: while some source data for search engines and help people match their queries with the most appropriate websites, others are not so helpful. In the past year, bad bots accounted for 19.9 percent of all website traffic -- a 6.98 percent increase over the same… [Continue Reading]