[1] The creator of the Web Bot Project, Clif High, along with his associate George Ure, keep the technology and algorithms largely secret and sell the predictions via the website.
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[4] Despite this, the creators have made many claims after the fact that their reports have predicted important events.
[12][failed verification] A The Globe and Mail journalist noted that: What interests me more than the bot's accuracy (of which I'm skeptical), is the relentless negativity of its projections.
[10]Tom Chivers in the Daily Telegraph notes three criticisms of the project: ...the internet might plausibly reveal group knowledge about the stock market or, conceivably, terror attacks [but] it would be no more capable of predicting a natural disaster than would a Google search, ... the predictions are so vague as to be meaningless, [and] the prophecies become self-distorting.