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My understanding is that Google have a policy against sites doing that. Does Google not enforce the policy sufficiently, or are there exceptions made?
by jfoster 4y ago
My understanding is that Google have a policy against sites doing that. Does Google not enforce the policy sufficiently, or are there exceptions made?
- nostromo 4y agoGoogle’s policy shifted. You can show the crawler full text of an article and then put it behind a paywall for example.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoNot only does that benefit the site owners, it benefits Google by creating a moat. Any new entrant to search is initially restricted to the same content as you or I.
- orangeoxidation 4y agoDoesn't it make search worse though? I don't like my searches to end at paywalls and Google being able to do more of that doesn't seem an advantage.