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I was wondering if they were deliberately allowing archive sites past the paywall.

• nwh 13y ago
  More likely archive.is is pretending to be Googlebot. The author has a lot of server side tricks, like fake Facebook accounts so that it can archive Facebook pages properly.
  • fabulist 13y ago
    I'm attempting to replicate this. Searching the last sentence (which is behind the paywall) brings it up in google right away, so I think you're right. However, using Googlebot's user agent doesn't work, so it must be slightly more sophisticated. The result in Google is also not-paywalled, though going directly to the link is. So maybe they use a simpler strategy, and just mess with the parameters. This is the result from google: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303880604579405852448992982?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303880604579405852448992982.html http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230388060...
    • nwh 13y ago
      Searching at Google for "cache:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303880604579405852448992982?" gets me the full text article, they could just be stripping the header from the page and displaying that? I know it does detection of cached Google pages in some circumstances.