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So does this mean Google is going to stop indexing the text of WSJ articles?
by rspeer 10y ago
So does this mean Google is going to stop indexing the text of WSJ articles?
- gleenn 10y agoThere is still incentive for WSJ to allow Google to index, they probably just will redirect you to sign up when you click through. Perhaps they'd let Google just index the preview text to prevent using the cache
- freehunter 10y agoDoesn't Google punish sites that show different content to Googlebot than they do to a user?
- jschmitz28 10y agoIt seems like they should otherwise it would seriously hurt their search quality (unless they did something like personalized search ranking for users who they could determine were signed into those particular walled off sites).
- abraae 10y agoYes, that's "cloaking".
- ohashi 10y agoThe old experts exchange rule where they put all the content at the bottom :/
- Someone 10y ago"Perhaps they'd let Google just index the preview text" would take care of that.
- robryan 10y agoGoogle should absolutely not index, at least not under the current organic and news search. Why should they send traffic to articles that people can't freely view? I would support some kind of premium news offering from Google where they do index these and you are allowed access through a revenue share subscription made via Google.
- chii 10y ago> Why should they send traffic to articles that people can't freely view? what if WSJ paid google to index, but not give out for free? Or, rather, partnered with google so that you can pay for WSJ (or individual articles) via google's payment infrastructure?
- kevincox 10y agoI wouldn't be against Google showing the articles clearly marked as non-free. I would however be disappointed if I clicked through a regular link and hit a paywall.