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Mystery
Apr 5th, 2008, 9:27 PM
I have done little research into these web-bot. But they are said to predict the future. They were used to stocks originally.
Maybe some of you have heard of The Web Bot Project, but for those of you who have not, it's quite intriguing.

The Web Bot Project, developed in the late 1990's, was created to assist in making stock market predictions.

The technology uses a system of spiders to crawl the Internet and search for keywords, much like a search engine does. When a keyword is located, the bot program takes a snapshot of the text preceding and following the keyword. This snapshot of text is sent to a central location where it is then filtered to define meaning.--quoted from article, click link to read more.
http://aphroditeastrology.com/2007/05/web-bot-project-and-2012.html

DontBeAfraid
Apr 5th, 2008, 9:58 PM
This project provides a wonderfully large amount of inconclusive data.... But inconclusive in relation to what? Now that we have the data we need a topic.... Somebody build another bot!

medicvet
Apr 5th, 2008, 11:22 PM
Weren't they going to be doing an actual 'terrorism' or 'disaster' type of stock market, doing trading on whether or not things would happen in the future, but it got so much bad press that they mox nixed that??

Mystery
Apr 5th, 2008, 11:37 PM
It sounds quirky to me. It has made some possible correct predictions, but been wrong as well. I suppose just like anything else, a prediction can be made to fit what ever you want it too.

hehbert
Apr 6th, 2008, 12:40 AM
Web-bots...

They are surely love-it or hate-it entities.

But it's safe to agree that they are despicable whenever they crash the "parties" going on at AO! Who's with me???

Note: If you are going to agree you may reply... otherwise the question becomes a rhetorical one. :cool14: Cheers!

The Wicked Priest
Apr 6th, 2008, 7:41 AM
Web-bots can predict the future now, too? Wow! I thought they were too busy showering in front of the webcam with her roomates, and finding ways to make my penis grow 4 inches overnight... guaranteed. Is there anything they can't do?

Smoke
Apr 6th, 2008, 5:30 PM
Web-bots can predict the future now, too? Wow! I thought they were too busy showering in front of the webcam with her roomates, and finding ways to make my penis grow 4 inches overnight... guaranteed. Is there anything they can't do?

I repped you for that.