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		Apocryphon on Oct 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone) I wonder if there are people who continuously trawl the streams of Picasa, Flickr, imgur, and other photo sites.

paulsilver on Oct 20, 2012 [–]

They're probably just using Google Alerts. If he tagged the image "nexus" when he put it on Picasa it'd be indexed by Google very quickly (they run Picass) and hit Alerts e-mails soon after.

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