What is up with websites and "exclusives"?

[Ian]

It amazes me how many websites claim to have "exclusives". Do they even know what an exclusive is? Let's look the word up in the dictionary.

ex·clu·sive
n.
A news item initially released to only one publication or broadcaster.

So by definition, it would be an exclusive if they were the only one to review a product or technology. It is not an exclusive if a) someone else has already done it or b) they're just first of many people to do it.

I think I'm going to be sending a few people dictionaries for Christmas next year.

[dolphinius_rex]

It amazes me how many websites claim to have "exclusives". Do they even know what an exclusive is? Let's look the word up in the dictionary.

ex·clu·sive
n.
A news item initially released to only one publication or broadcaster.

So by definition, it would be an exclusive if they were the only one to review a product or technology. It is not an exclusive if a) someone else has already done it or b) they're just first of many people to do it.

I think I'm going to be sending a few people dictionaries for Christmas next year.

But shipping to Europe is so expensive!