Gox also appears to have some kind of in-house bot with access to the exchange still and it is still buying, hahaha. This bots seems to be the 15btc buy bot that has been around for a while trying to push the price upwards every 5-10 minutes.
in a minute we shall find out .. if this bot is still active lol
it bought at 10:37.. lol if this was an elaborate hack to show the gox bot.. oh god
6hrs at that rate = 1100 by 7:41am lol
LOL There it is! Yeah I was just doing similar calculations. This has revealed their 'price pusher' bot to the world, hahah. That thing has been around for a least a couple weeks now. My theory is more that they hit the panic button when the market went in a direction they and their bot didn't want.
Maybe it's simply a market maker bot. Hard to tell.