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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by jhwhite on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:35AM (#12683753)
This is what I came to say. Not sure why that works, but it does!
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by elorant on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:27AM (#12684629)
Because due to a black hat trick called cloaking [1], Google penalizes pages that show different content to users and crawlers. So web sites serve a free version of their content to Google.

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by bluehazed on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:50PM (#12686721)
This is a "black hat trick"?
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by Coincoin on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:03AM (#12683948)
Because google will ban the page if the crawled content is not the same as the displayed content when you click their link.
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by robotnixon on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:00AM (#12683921)
Google discourages websites from appearing in search but requiring registration to view. If the website detects that the user came from a Google search, they don't throw up the paywall.
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