Wednesday, December 2, 2009

When do clicks count ?

The five click thing, with Google News offering a deal to news publishers, who may now specify that a user can only read a limited number of news stories a day is weird.

I tried reading the story on the subscription-based Washington Post site. That allowed me free access to the Reuters copy on the subject. The site also offered the first lines of an article on the same subject by Erick Schonfeld of Techcrunch.com - that click led straight to the sign-up-for-subscription page. However an ordinary Google search for "Erick Schonfeld Washington Post clicks" took me to the article for free...

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