The question of George Ure and the "web bots" came up on a "doomer" forum, and I wrote this reponse:

I'd take George Ure's advice with a LARGE grain of salt (a salt lick?)
He is notorious for losing his own money countless times in the past. We're talking WIPED OUT when his silly computer program mistook "the Chinese launched a new rocket" for "the DOW will take off like a rocket" (just making up a silly example, but you get the idea)

My point is, the Internet is NOT all-knowing and certainly doesn't know the future. Human beings can guess, but they don't know the future. Not individually, for certain. So why would a GROUP of them be able to predict the future? Moreover, there is nothing magical about the Internet. I'm a web developer, so you'll excuse me for not being in awe of "the Internet". I MAKE pieces of the Internet every day, and I assure you there's nothing magical about it!  Wink

His predictions are like the predictions of Nostradamus -- you can twist them until they seem to fit some event that happened. Followers take heart and keep following him, and skeptics keep on being skeptics. Nothing really changes.