Some newspapers and other websites display only news excerpts on their website asking the visitor to subscribe to the newspaper or magazine to read the rest of the article. The Wall Street Journal is probably the most popular newspaper that makes use of this subscription system but there are others like the Financial Times.
Most users do not want to subscribe to the newspaper website just to read that one article which is probably the reason why some where looking for ways around this content restriction.
Amit over at Digital Inspiration has discovered an easy option to access limited content on newspaper websites.
Two steps need to be taken to read the full article.
- Copy the url of the article
- Paste the url into the Google Search engine.
The article should show up as the first search result. A click on that will load the full article. It sometimes works better with the title instead of the url but the results are usually the same.
Why is that working right now? One of the requirements of becoming a subscription based site in Google News is to allow access full Googlebot to the website in question which will happily index the site’s contents in Google’s vast index.
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Oh my god! This is seriously a great tip. Thanks. It deserves a trackback from my blog. :)
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