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What do you mean by "returns in Google"? If you simply mean that the article shows up in search results, I'm not sure how that's different from the books in my
by 0xffff2 7y ago
What do you mean by "returns in Google"? If you simply mean that the article shows up in search results, I'm not sure how that's different from the books in my original example. Certainly you'll get links to books on the bestseller list for related search results.
- wincy 7y agoThe google user agent crawler is given the full text of the article, I believe. So the companies are trying to have to both ways, by providing the article wholly to the web crawler that indexes the page, but then expecting users to pay for it.
- 0xffff2 7y agoSo what? Authors give out free copies of their books to reviewers. Is the line supposed to be that if someone gets the article for free then everyone has to get it for free?
- bsder 7y agoNot at all. Give me a way to remove all paywalled links from my Google search and I'll be quite happy, thanks. Google used to penalize sites dramatically that provided different views to search engine versus user. However, that apparently impacted their ad revenues so it went away.