I based my article on what the creators of the project say about how it works. I understand the concept of forecast via trends, but this is not how this project works in the words of the project creators

The so-called “Time Monks” who run the project claim no scientific method, but rather allude to their complex lignuistic analysis as tapping into a spiritual force:

The web bot technology apparently taps in to an area of preconscious awareness.
The Global Consciousness Project registered what appears to have been a disturbance in “the force”. . . it was I Ching-like in wording.
— From http://www.urbansurvival.com/simplebots.htm

The Bible describes nothing like a amoral “force” or a Jungian collective unconscious. It is true the “force” of God can know the future since He is outside time, but God’s predictions via his prophets are 1) never wrong and 2) are very specific. In contrast the web bot predictions are never specific and not always correct.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the project may sometimes point to real events, but the results are very similar to the “M.O.” of familar spirits. I can tell you that the dark spritual and fallen angelic realm is capable of limited future prediction. I’m not sure how they do it, but it is accurate enough to impress thinking people for thousands of years, our time is no exception. The use of finding patterns in “randomness” is an indentifying feature, from the divination of animal organs in the Grecian Oracle, to the I Ching, the spritual manipulation of random patterns is an age old feature of divination.

However, the information they give suites their dark purposes and may be lies or partial truths. Moreover, the information never comes for free; once they provide information to a person they will lay claim to ever increasing areas of a person’s life.