Saudi Arabia Quietly Pumps Up Its Stock Market

Outline is a service which bypasses WSJ's paywall. I believe it does so by imitating a web crawler. The idea is that WSJ can't paywall a crawler otherwise its SEO will be destroyed. Thus it is a reliable way to capture the information.

Re: Saudi Arabia Quietly Pumps Up Its Stock Market

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Post by craftyguy » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:07 AM UTC

SeanAnderson wrote: post #4

craftyguy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is this?

Outline is a service which bypasses WSJ's paywall. I believe it does so by imitating a web crawler. The idea is that WSJ can't paywall a crawler otherwise its SEO will be destroyed. Thus it is a reliable way to capture the information.

Thanks. Rather than just post random links to unheard of sites, it would be great if those links had a short description of what the link is.

Re: Saudi Arabia Quietly Pumps Up Its Stock Market

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Post by oh_sigh » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:08 AM UTC

SeanAnderson wrote: post #4

craftyguy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is this?

Outline is a service which bypasses WSJ's paywall. I believe it does so by imitating a web crawler. The idea is that WSJ can't paywall a crawler otherwise its SEO will be destroyed. Thus it is a reliable way to capture the information.

Do you know why google allows WSJ et al to serve one set of content to a crawler, but another to an actual user? I thought they punished that kind of behavior.

Re: Saudi Arabia Quietly Pumps Up Its Stock Market

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Post by oh_sigh » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

craftyguy wrote: post #5

SeanAnderson wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outline is a service which bypasses WSJ's paywall. I believe it does so by imitating a web crawler. The idea is that WSJ can't paywall a crawler otherwise its SEO will be destroyed. Thus it is a reliable way to capture the information.

Thanks. Rather than just post random links to unheard of sites, it would be great if those links had a short description of what the link is.

I agree, and FYI, if you click the 'web' link which is under the article title on the comments page, if you click the first result, you will have google effectively do what outline.com does for you.

Re: Saudi Arabia Quietly Pumps Up Its Stock Market

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Post by booleandilemma » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:10 AM UTC

Or we could actually support journalists so we don’t end up in a dystopia where we have to get all our news from BuzzFeed and Mashable.

Re: Saudi Arabia Quietly Pumps Up Its Stock Market

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Post by SeanAnderson » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:12 AM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #6

SeanAnderson wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outline is a service which bypasses WSJ's paywall. I believe it does so by imitating a web crawler. The idea is that WSJ can't paywall a crawler otherwise its SEO will be destroyed. Thus it is a reliable way to capture the information.

Do you know why google allows WSJ et al to serve one set of content to a crawler, but another to an actual user? I thought they punished that kind of behavior.

I don't have any information that isn't public, no. Just building off of previous discussions of outline.com in HN threads.

Re: Saudi Arabia Quietly Pumps Up Its Stock Market

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Post by icpmacdo » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:13 AM UTC

Its like political quantitative easing, seems like a scary house of cards assembled.