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Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google
- intended 15y agoThanks - this is a more informative article than the TechCrunch post which was on the front page.
- jdp23 15y agoYeah really. Great counterexample to the people here who claim that HN voting is primarily about the content of the article. The TechCrunch article had a better headline, broader readership in the HN crowd, and a more techy URL ... so it pulled in the votes.
- hornokplease 15y agoAgreed, another example of a larger tech blog picking up on reporting done by somebody else and garnering most of the attention/upvotes. The TC article had no real value-add on top of the reporting that Dan Lyons did, but it has more name-recognition on HN so apparently gets to lead the story. Frustrating!
- _delirium 15y agoI wonder how they can say this with a straight face: a Facebook spokesman last night confirmed that Facebook hired Burson, citing two reasons: First, because it believes Google is doing some things in social networking that raise privacy concerns
- yock 15y agoThis came across HN just yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532759 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532759
- hornokplease 15y agoYes, but this article unmasked Facebook as the 'undisclosed client'
- mvkel 15y agoIs it a smear if the allegations are true?