Web Bot

[whynot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Bot

Web Bot, or the Web Bot Project, refers to an Internet bot software program that is claimed to be able to predict future events by tracking keywords entered on the Internet. It was created in 1997, originally to predict stock market trends.[1] The creator of the Web Bot Project, Clif High, along with his associate George Ure, who call themselves "The Time Monks",[2] keep the technology and algorithms largely secret and sell the predictions via the website

This Web Bot is actually hightly respected and being used by professionals:bugeye:

 

[Stryder]

Didn't you realise that a lot of high rollers rely upon analysis guys to give them a "prediction". All those guys do is take some values, place them into a formula and observe a result, that in itself is exactly what the program does. Takes values, applies to a formula generates a posed result.

Now whether or not people respond to the prediction and "generate the result through hysteria" is something completely different.