Hunting Web Rumors: ‘A Swiss online marketing company called Agence Virtuelle has created
RumorBot, a software robot intended to uncover the source of rumors
on the Internet. Using 44 autonomous agents (small programs),
RumorBot scans the Web, newsgroups, chat rooms, and listservers for
target words and phrases and then determines posting dates and
origins, a “chain of evidence” for malicious content (e.g., the Emulex
false press release scandal).’ Geek.com