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  • noun computing Any of various pieces of software designed to harvest articles from newsgroups, or from news websites

Etymologies

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news +‎ bot

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Examples

  • For example, I did a search on "newsbot" and clicked on three articles, only to find that none of the articles were recorded in my history or used for personalization.

    MSN Newsbot review Greg Linden 2004

  • For example, I did a search on "newsbot" and clicked on three articles, only to find that none of the articles were recorded in my history or used for personalization.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Greg Linden 2004

  • Gypsii just launched a "newsbot" that harvests news from the Internet and then delivers stories to smartphones based on where they happen to be, according to Schuyler.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • The nyt newsbot I set up reflects the contents of all the Times feeds.

    Scripting News for 3/17/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • All it would take is one TV newsbot mispronouncing his name just once, and the floodgates would open.

    Things That Ought Really Not Have to Have Been Said in a Congressional Hearing, Yet Alas Had to Be « Whatever 2006

  • Stationed on the corner was a chrome-plated newsbot, hawking the Daily Skan.

    Tek Lab Shatner, William 1991

  • Of course, the fault wasn't Google's - but a number of very embarrassed people at the South Florida Sun Sentinel and Bloomberg are trying to push the blame at Google's newsbot.

    Internet Business 2008

  • - Google's newsbot happened to be on the site, found the story, and published it in its index

    Internet Business 2008

  • If you’re following a newsbot, you’re going to get news spam.

    Micro-experiment Phil Whitehouse 2009

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