21–30 of 127 posts
This reduces the number of reliable and reasonably neutral news sources accessible to the majority of people, which is a bad thing.
I would not call Reuters neutral. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters
Hopefully the addition of a paywall does not skew things.
Holy crap...who is this audience? NYT is $4/month, WAPO is $4-6/month, etc.
Edit: Ah, okay, intro pricing that shifts to ~$17/month after a year. Still, though, that's half of this proposed pricing.
I wonder at what point Google needs to pay attention to this. If a large number of websites are behind registration or paywalls, then the chance that any individual person searching would have a subscription (or registration) to any individual news site is pretty low. People might have some small number of subscriptions, but not for many sites. So, why keep returning search results that the end user can't use without…
I wonder at what point Google needs to pay attention to this. If a large number of websites are behind registration or paywalls, then the chance that any individual person searching would have a subscription (or registration) to any individual news site is pretty low. People might have some small number of subscriptions, but not for many sites. So, why keep returning search results that the end user can't use without…
I wonder at what point Google needs to pay attention to this. If a large number of websites are behind registration or paywalls, then the chance that any individual person searching would have a subscription (or registration) to any individual news site is pretty low. People might have some small number of subscriptions, but not for many sites. So, why keep returning search results that the end user can't use without…
why does google allow this? as you say it is 100% cloaking to have the entire article indexed but not present it in the subsequent page.
Sure, publishers feel they need paywalls for revenue purposes; have at it. That should not absolve them from the "rules" everyone else has to follow.
Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results than they expected. [0]
[0] - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
The more money that comes from subscriptions, the more that news coverage will reflect the interests of subscribers rather than advertisers.
Reuters: $420
Bloomberg: $419
Financial Times: $372
The Economist: $189
"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging." Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
"audiences prepared to pay $34.99 per month for a deeper level of coverage" Holy crap...who is this audience? NYT is $4/month, WAPO is $4-6/month, etc. Edit: Ah, okay, intro pricing that shifts to ~$17/month after a year. Still, though, that's half of this proposed pricing.