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pacquiao882 on Feb 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls

WSJ is big enough to negotiate their own terms with Google Search.

limelight on Feb 20, 2016 [–]

They're really not. They need Google a lot more than Google needs them.

One of these things is going to happen:

(1) They end this "experiment."

(2) They stop serving Google the full content. (And see their rankings drop accordingly.)

(3) They get delisted for cloaking.

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