That was strange indeed, this link to Techcrunch was a teaser for an article that was on Crunchgear that was a snippet of the actual full article on Forbes. It was a good read though.
My friends and I have actually been noticing this. There's been a deluge of TC links to articles with barely any content, and/or content that simply links to another article.
This is not a good trend. People: please submit original sources.
An opportunity to make a techcrunch url unshortener!
I feel like Techcrunch does that a lot....
Welcome to AOL!
You actually missed a step, which to me is what really makes this situation amazing: the TechCrunch page is a teaser for an article on CrunchGear that was actually syndicated from "gamrfeed" (note the via link! ;P) which itself is a snippet of a full article on Forbes.