> I mean, we're talking about paywalled content here – ideals of an Open Web don't really apply. I think the scenario being imagined here is: 1. I search for

> I mean, we're talking about paywalled content here – ideals of an Open Web don't really apply. I think the scenario being imagined here is: 1. I search for story on Google dot com. 2. Paywalled story appears at #1, artificially boosted relative to other paywalled content because Google can index it. 3. I click on the story (not knowing it's paywalled), am greeted with a paywall. The site not only blocked me from viewing the story, they just wasted significantly more of my mobile data.