{"id":2402,"date":"2008-09-10T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Internet-Bots-Anatomy-of-a-Stock-Selling-Frenzy"},"modified":"2008-09-10T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T23:22:00","slug":"internet-bots-anatomy-of-a-stock-selling-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"Internet Bots: Anatomy of a Stock Selling Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed the brouhaha on Monday, United Airlines’ stock dropped from $12.50 to $3 per share in the matter of 15 minutes because of an Internet bot–and not just any old Internet bot–the king of all bots, the Google News crawler. The circumstances that led up the event were confusing, fingers were pointed every which way, and conspiracy theorists cried stock manipulation. Now that dust has settled somewhat, the pieces of the puzzle have started to come together in this odd series of events. Apparently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed the brouhaha on Monday, United Airlines’ stock dropped from $12.50 to $3 per share in the matter of 15 minutes because of an Internet bot–and not just any old Internet bot–the king of all bots, the Google News crawler. The circumstances that led up the event were confusing, fingers were pointed every which way, and conspiracy theorists cried stock manipulation. Now that dust has settled somewhat, the pieces of the puzzle have started to come together in this odd series of events. Apparently Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}