Google Offers Pubs ‘5 Clicks Free’ Trade-Off
Did someone just blink in the great Google vs. News Corp. paid content smackdown? The latest round of digital brinksmanship involving how the search giant aggregates news stories behind paywalls got more interesting Tuesday when Google announced a couple of measures to placate publishers, including a new five-pages-free addition to its First Click Free indexing feature. “We’ve found that some publishers who might try it are worried about people abusing the spirit of First Click Free to access almost all of their content,” Google News spokesperson Chris Gaither told the E-Commerce Times.
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Google Offers Pubs ‘5 Clicks Free’ Trade-Off
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