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theBot requires sound.

For best results, lower your screen resolution to 640x480 or as close to it as possible. (theBot is old and was designed for smaller screens.)

To reboot a running Bot, roll mouse over lower right portion of Bot window, and shy reboot button will appear.

Please do not enclose your query in quotes. theBot doesn't like them.

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theBot Credits

More swell projects by the same human can be found at plagiarist.org

Contact theBot:
thebot [at] plagiarist.org

When fed a searchterm by a visitor, theBot performs a search for the word or phrase in a search engine. It then selects one page from the choices returned by the search engine, and reads a piece of text from the page. From there, it crawls to a linked page, and continues reading scraps of text from each page it visits as it crawls from page to page. If theBot cannot link out from a page or gets tired after too long on a given server, it backs up along its path and moves out in a different direction. Easily bored, theBot tries to move between different servers as much as possible and will never visit the same page twice unless fooled into it. As something of a reverse search engine, theBot provides a look (and listen) into the narrative of the web - or at least into the stream of consciousness of a web Bot.

theBot requires:

• Netscape or Internet Explorer browser version 4 or higher
  
• Shockwave plugin (version 8.5 or higher)
  
• Turn up the sound on your computer.
  
• Spend a few minutes.

theBot prefers a fairly fast CPU, works properly when it wants to, and spends its leisure time learning to speak French through Babelfish.

*** Due to limitations of Shockwave audio on the Mac, theBot performs best on a Windows system.