Re WSJ ends Google users' free ride, then falls 44% in search results

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
> Date: June 14, 2017 at 6:37:48 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: "Lauren Weinstein" <lauren () vortex com>, "Bcc" <johnl-sent () iecc com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] WSJ ends Google users' free ride, then falls 44% in search results
>
> In article <6D9A5574-7651-4048-B295-66085444E8F5 () gmail com> you write:
> > >   After the Journal's free articles
> > >   went behind a paywall, Google's bot only saw the first few
> > >   paragraphs and started ranking them lower, limiting the
> > >   Journal's viewership.  Executives at the Journal, owned by
> > >   Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., argue that Google's policy is
> > >   unfairly punishing them for trying to attract more digital
> > >   subscribers. They want Google to treat their articles equally
> > >   in search rankings, despite being behind a paywall.
>
> The WSJ must have the world's worst web programmers if they can't
> figure out how to show Google the full articles even though normal
> users are paywalled.  That's what all the other paywalled papers do.
>
> Sheesh.
>
> R's,
> John
>
> PS: If the argument were "but then people can get them from the Google
> cache" their progammers would be even worse than I thought.



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