Newspapers Are Getting Desperate
Google to limit free news access
"Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced.
The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.
Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription websites.
Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration pages.
"Previously, each click from a user would be treated as free," Google senior business product manager Josh Cohen said in a blog post.
"Now, we've updated the programme so that publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing."
Google users may start seeing registration pages appear when they click for a sixth time on any given day at websites of publishers using the programme, according to Mr Cohen.
This will only affect websites that currently charge for content."
posted by nolocontendere at 5:31 AM
3 Comments:
Well, it's not like we didn't see this coming, newpapers have been bitching about the Internet for years now.
There'll always be free content, as long as the Google-Plex allows it.
It helped build the Great Fire-Wall of China after all.
They ought to be grateful that bloggers read and repost sections of thier hasbara articles, we boost how many times their stuff gets read, adn this is the thanks we get. Wonder if using a 2nd browser would work round it LOL
It's like they're about 10 years behind everything. We did indeed see this coming for about a decade, and they're that far behind in understanding that the more they distribute their content for free, the more they'll get linked to and the more ad revenue they'll make.
Utter fools.
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