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"Some readers have discovered they can avoid paying subscription fees to newspaper websites by calling up their pages via Google." This is absurd on so many le
by Maro 17y ago
"Some readers have discovered they can avoid paying subscription fees to newspaper websites by calling up their pages via Google."
This is absurd on so many levels. People find the article with Google, but it's the newspaper who puts it up for free. Yes, there is a question here, but this article is confused. The question is simple: newspapers produce content, Google indexes it, how do they split the ad revenues? I would think that both parties are free to put up ads on their pages, and they do, but newspapers are trying to cut into Google's ad revenue. I'm sure they're also willing to chip in to help pay for Google's cost of maintaining their index, after all, it's driving traffic to them...
If we're talking about a subscription article, then Google shouldn't (can't?) index it anyways?
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoYep, they can. Know why? Because Agents with the Google codename get free access to subscription services. Why would this happen? Because Newspapers want to get fucking indexed and search traffic. In fact there's a ff plugin out there that lets you change your user agent id to that of google's bot. Lets you see free articles, porn, etc. But mostly porn.