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		Ask YC: applications of bots/spiders/crawlers
		2 points by yearsinrock on Feb 27, 2008 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment
		other than search engine indexing

brk on Feb 27, 2008 [–]

Vulnerability scanning would be one potential example. An intelligent bot can better probe and respond to services running based on OS/Version returned.

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