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A guestbook is a paper or electronic means for a visitor to acknowledge their visitation to a site physical or web-based and leave their name postal or electronic address (if desired) and a comment or note if desired. Such paper-based ledgers or books are traditional in churches at weddings funerals B&Bs museums and other private facilities open to the public. Many private homes also maintain guestbooks. Specialised forms of guestbooks include hotel registers wherein guests are required to provide their contact information and Books of Condolence which are used at funeral homes and more generally after notable public deaths such as the death of a monarch or president or after a public disaster such as an airplane crash. US President Barack Obama signs the guestbook of the Canadian Parliament 2009.

On the Web a guestbook is a logging system that allows visitors of a website to leave a public comment. It is possible in some guestbooks for visitors to express their thoughts about the website or its subject. Generally they do not require the poster to create a user account as it is an informal method of dropping off a quick message. The purpose of a website guestbook is to display the kind of visitors the site gets including the part of the world they reside in and gain feedback from them. This allows the webmaster to assess and improve their site. A guestbook is generally a script which is usually remotely-hosted and written in a language such as Perl PHP Python or ASP. Many free guestbook hosts and scripts exist.

Names and addresses provided in guestbooks paper-based or electronic are frequently recorded and collated for use in providing statistics about visitors to the site and to contact visitors to the site in the future. References

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