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Nice! Thanks for the tipoff.

Another good one is simply to load the google cache. Often these sites want to turn up in search results, so they allow the googlebot to see the content, and then show the user a paywall. Obviously this means the full content ends up in the cache. This works for the Financial Times, and probably many other such places.



I wonder why Google doesn't do anything about it. It seems these big companies/brands get to get away with anything.


Google claim to detect when people do that, but I guess it's not foolproof.


It's why experts-exchange has all the content all the way at the bottom now if you scroll half a mile down. They used to show users and google different results until Google cracked down.




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