shopping bot definition and meaning
In the TechFirst podcast clip below, Queue-it Co-founder Niels Henrik Sodemann explains to John Koetsier how retailers prevent bots, and how bot developers take advantage of P.O. Boxes and rolling credit card numbers to circumvent after-sale audits. Or think about a stat from GameStop’s former director of international ecommerce. “At times, more than 60% of our traffic - across hundreds of millions of visitors a day - was bots or scrapers,” he told the BBC. With recent hyped releases of the PlayStation 5, there’s reason to believe this was even higher. Customers just need to enter the travel date, choice of accommodation, and location. After this, the shopping bot will then search the web to get you just the right deal to meet your needs as best as possible. Global…