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===Claimed hits===

*[[Northeast Blackout of 2003]]<ref name=torontostar>{{cite news|url=httphttps://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Television/article/414923|title=Decoding the End of Days|work=Toronto Star|accessdate=25 October 2009 | first=Vinay | last=Menon | date=16 April 2008}}</ref>

*[[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]]<ref name=torontostar/><ref name=newkerala>{{cite web|url=http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-118770.html |title=World's expiry date: 21 December 2012? |publisher=NewKerala.com |accessdate=3 October 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928052351/http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-118770.html |archivedate=28 September 2009 }}</ref>

*[[Hurricane Katrina]] and its devastation<ref name=torontostar/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethiopianreview.com/scitech/12308 |title=‘Web-bot project’ makes prophecy of 2012 apocalypse |publisher=Ethiopian Review |accessdate=4 October 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091119080609/http://www.ethiopianreview.com/scitech/12308 |archivedate=19 November 2009 }}</ref>

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===Misses===

* The Web Bot gained most of its notoriety for contributing to the [[2012 phenomenon]] by predicting a cataclysm that would devastate the planet on 21 December 2012, possibly a reversing of [[Earth's magnetic field|Earth's magnetic poles]] or a small series of nuclear attacks leading up to a major attack during the year. The prediction did not call for a complete end of the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Worlds-expiry-date-21-December-2012/521526/ |title=World’s expiry date: 21 December 2012? |publisher=ExpressIndia |accessdate=3 October 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329041221/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Worlds-expiry-date-21-December-2012/521526/ |archivedate=29 March 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/24061/|title= 2012 Disaster Film Director Admits he Scared Himself |publisher=[[The Epoch Times]]|accessdate=25 October 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eldia.com.ar/edis/20080427/revistadomingo15.htm|title=El Nostradamus virtual (in Spanish)|publisher=[[El Día (La Plata)|El Día]]|accessdate=25 October 2009}}</ref>

* Web Bot predicted that a massive earthquake would occur in December 2008 in [[Vancouver]], Canada and the [[Pacific Northwest]], but no such event happened.<ref name=taylor>{{cite news|url=httphttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article651047.ece |title=Vanwaterworld? Hold the Armageddon talk |last=Taylor |first=Timothy |date=January 2009 |work=Globe and Mail |___location=Canada |accessdate=4 October 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329060911/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article651047.ece |archivedate=29 March 2010 }}</ref>

* A prediction that the US dollar would completely collapse in 2011, and that [[Israel]] would bomb [[Iran]], with the administration of U.S. President [[Barack Obama]] being thrown into major chaos.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seekingalpha.com/article/167241-the-market-s-current-psychological-map|title=The Market's Current Psychological Map|publisher=[[Seeking Alpha]]|accessdate=25 October 2009}}</ref>