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		majani on April 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Paid This Man $100 Million A study showed that links from Business Insider stand an extremely low chance of getting upvotes on HN ( http://blog.rjmetrics.com/surprising-hacker-news-data-analys... ). That's why people post other websites' syndications of BI.

nikcub on April 7, 2013 [–]

which is a shame, because BI has been really good recently - to the point that I visit the site each day

that said, I do enjoy the irony of a BI original article being syndicated by another publisher and becoming more popular than the original source

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