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Wall Street Journal does the same. My guess is that it's intentional - they don't want to necessarily block you from reason their content, just convince those w
by ngoel36 14y ago
Wall Street Journal does the same. My guess is that it's intentional - they don't want to necessarily block you from reason their content, just convince those who can to pay.
- fpgeek 14y agoThe WSJ seems to be more targeted with their paywall than other papers. Some articles are still behind the wall even with the "Google trick": http://searchengineland.com/wsj-pulls-back-on-what-google-searchers-can-read-for-free-112922 http://searchengineland.com/wsj-pulls-back-on-what-google-se...
- thefreeman 14y agoIt's intentional, but not because of that. In order to be indexed, they have to show the content to google. It is against googles TOS to show them content and not display it to visitors referred by their index.
- wahnfrieden 14y agoThis is incorrect, there is special allowance for paywalled media to serve the content to googlebot but not necessarily all Google referrals.