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It’s often more difficult to find applications for new technology than it is to learn the technology itself. Therefore, this chapter focuses on encouraging you to generate ideas for things that you can do with webbots. We’ll explore how webbots capitalize on browser limitations, and we’ll see a few examples of what people are currently doing with webbots. We’ll wrap up by throwing out some wild ideas that might help you expand your expectations of what can be done online.