WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results

Re:WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Re... by dragonwriter on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:54PM (#14491922)

Googlebot does not crawl the web separately for each user with a copy of that user's credentials borrowed from their browser. Aside from the privacy and security issues, it would require Google to multiply it's search resources by the number of users.

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Re:WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Re... by 2_listerine_pls on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:42PM (#14492408)

> Googlebot does not crawl the web separately for each user with a copy of that user's credentials borrowed from their browser.

I did not say that.

I said google could display the results to which you have access, based on your cookies. Assuming they had access to crawl the whole article.

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Re:WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Re... by CydeWeys on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:49PM (#14492477)

That would require Google to be in the business of knowing every site that you have a membership in.

It is not possible for Google to get access to cookies for other sites, anyway. This is a pretty fundamentally important security restriction that browsers implement to protect you from nefarious sites. So it isn't possible for Google to know which sites you have paid accounts with unless you explicitly tell it.

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