About the Bots
ArgMax's newsBot and dataBot are tools that automatically scan the Internet for
various kinds of information.
In the case of dataBot, the program scans press releases from
various government sites and extracts relevant data and inserts them into a database to be accessed
later. In the case of newsBot, the program scans various economic news and commentary webpages to
extract the headlines and link to the article.
You can also receive emails from dataBot notifying you of the latest data releases.
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Both newsBot and dataBot are run whenever a user
accesses certain pages on this site.
dataBot is set to run no more frequently than once a day, and will only run after 10am.
The time limit is to ensure that the bot is not run too early in the morning and hence before data is
released for the day.
newsBot is set to run no more frequently than once every four hours. This is done so as to
improve overall performance and to limit incoming bandwidth usage.
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