Ask HN: How much of Techcrunch's reporting is just re-blogs of stories from HN?

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by nighthawk • 15 years ago

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Is it just me or are other people noticing that a lot of TechCrunch's content showed up on HN several hours before it shows up on TechCrunch?

Which leads me to wonder, how much longer will mainstream media outlets be relevant? And is TechCrunch really that much different / better than a "content farm" like ehow, which they seem to dislike so much?

benologist• 15 years ago

You can't really expect much from them, their job is to move ad inventory and HN is willing to throw large amounts of traffic at them for many things. I think their days are numbered for two main reasons:

1) At some point (if not already) it will be more beneficial to launch your startup here directly and get 100% of the HN traffic instead of losing most of it on a TC page.

2) There's no space on TC for startups who don't have an a-list cast of founders and/or investors.

HN is probably going to be what makes TC irrelevant which is ironic because they pour so much energy into securing this audience.

Are they better or worse than a content farm? I think the line is blurred a little but in TC's favor. They write news, some of it's pretty mediocre and a lot of it makes you wonder when they'll come out and admit they're Engadget and Tuaw's ugly green bastard child, but it's news and it's now, not generic content tailored to suck search engine traffic for years.

glimcat• 15 years ago

The net echoes.

xuki• 15 years ago

It's actually 2 ways street. I've seen many articles from TechCrunch on HN.

petervandijck• 15 years ago

16.8%

Ask HN: How much of Techcrunch's reporting is just re-blogs of stories from HN?

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