Google to begin offering users to pay for third party news

Today, Google announced that it is making changes to it's "first click free" program, part of Google News and Google web search, which will enable participating news publishers to give users a "taste" of news, but then push them to a subscription page after viewing five articles on the external site. This news seems to follow Rupert Murdoch's announcement that he may begin pulling his news website from Google's index because they have been including his news in results without asking.  First click free, which has been in existence on Google News for a while, enables users to view entire articles from pay news sites without having to subscribe to the site.  Read full story...


 


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