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==Reception==

The [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]] has discussed Web Bot in its special "Doomsday 2012: The End of Days" on [[Decoding the Past#Season 3|season 3 of Decoding The Past]] and on other shows that feature predictions about the end of the world, such as the ''[[Nostradamus Effect]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=396904 |title=History TV Shows |publisher=History.com |access-date=4 January 2012}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=August 2015|reason=Doomsday 2012 isn't listed anymore. Probably not on the network anymore.}} A ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' journalist noted that
{{blockquote|"What interests me more than the bot's accuracy (of which I'm skeptical), is the relentless negativity of its projections. According to the bot, the future is always bleak and steadily worsening."<ref name=taylor/>}}
Tom Chivers in the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' notes three criticisms of the project:
{{blockquote|"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, {{nbsp}}... the predictions are so vague as to be meaningless, [and] the prophecies become self-distorting."<ref name=telegraph/>}}

==See also==