[Boot Hill]

I don't know how to break this to you, but there's a rumor going round that you're not an actual person, but rather that you are just a software program, of the web-crawler variety, that is set to run 24-7 sorting out the wheat from the chaff from the tens of thousands of new internet postings daily.

Any truth to that, HAL?

(Open the Pod bay door, please, HAL... HAL, do you read me?)

--Dave Bowman

[AdmSmith]

I don't know how to break this to you, but there's a rumor going round that you're not an actual person, but rather that you are just a software program, of the web-crawler variety, that is set to run 24-7 sorting out the wheat from the chaff from the tens of thousands of new internet postings daily.

Well, that is the software from the Puzzel Palace used by Google News (Beta) to sort by relevance. A human is still needed to read and evaluate. We at FR often beats the government employed in speed. That is why they read this.