100%. I ran a job board where we provided a nice machine readable XML feed of all of our jobs, but we had bots that insisted on using the standard search box. Searching by city using an alphabetized list.

Geographic search to was the most expensive thing they could have done and no matter what we did we couldn’t get them to use the XML feed.

I even tried returning a link to the feed when we detected a bot. No dice. They just kept working around the bot detection.