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,

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...