[shibumi]

"... do you really expect someone in the rush of trying to post an article is going to go to the 2nd page of a search engine to see if it is posted on FR?"

Do you believe that people posting articles on FR really get a "rush" out of it?

We live in different worlds, you and I.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Oh, absolutely. It is similar to breaking news on cable network. Who gets that info on the site the quickest after it happens. Not so much that they got it up first, but that they got it to us as quickly as possible. You do see it all of the time.

The plane crash the other night had at least 2 articles in breaking news for quite awhile. No way that could have been missed to the 2nd poster. But they wanted to share breaking news with their FR family as quickly as possible.