Comments on: First Click Free: Accessing Subscription-Based Articles For Free Via Google News http://searchengineland.com/first-click-free-accessing-subscription-based-articles-for-free-via-google-news-12236 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 25 May 2012 20:17:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ciarán http://searchengineland.com/first-click-free-accessing-subscription-based-articles-for-free-via-google-news-12236/comment-page-1#comment-3989 Ciarán Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:16:13 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/first-click-free-accessing-subscription-based-articles-for-free-via-google-news-12236.php#comment-3989 We had many discussions with Google about this when I was at RBI, but they could never reassure us about security; in other words, what's to stop spammers coming up with a script that searches for every article on your site, and gets to each one via FCF. It'll be interesting to see whether they have addressed this, and also of course, how relevant it will even be as more & more publishers give up on the subscription model. We had many discussions with Google about this when I was at RBI, but they could never reassure us about security; in other words, what’s to stop spammers coming up with a script that searches for every article on your site, and gets to each one via FCF.

It’ll be interesting to see whether they have addressed this, and also of course, how relevant it will even be as more & more publishers give up on the subscription model.

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