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Re:WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Re... by duskwuff on Monday June 05, 2017 @11:10PM (#14494437)
Because Google can only index what they can see. As noted in the article, the Googlebot only gets to see the first few paragraphs of WSJ articles, so those pages are less likely to rank on searches.
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Re:WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Re... by sowbug on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:28AM (#14494961)
Indexing more of the content (which would be possible by providing the full content to web crawlers) seems to violate Google's cloaking guideline as well: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355
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