It's a bait and switch. They give the search engines full text to crawl, and then nothing when a user clicks that link from their search. They got the tangible

It's a bait and switch. They give the search engines full text to crawl, and then nothing when a user clicks that link from their search. They got the tangible monetary benefits of having a high Google search ranking, without giving access to the actual content, which is how the web is supposed to work. It's not my fault that news websites have continually debased their users with horrible advertising and tracking, to the point where ad-supported news is pretty much no longer viable. There are plenty of examples of smaller content offerings like podcasts which do quite well being ad-supported, because they have the trust of their audience, and they only accept quality advertisers so they can charge a premium for their ad space. Books are different, they are not the web. I find things like Google Books very helpful, even for things like when I'm reading a physical book and want to look up which page I read something, even though I can't read the full book through it.