It's no secret that I'm pretty skeptical of the longterm viability of just about any newspaper paywall. Among the "success stories," however, many people point to the Financial Times, which has a policy of only letting unregistered users see a single story per month before locking them out.
If you register (still free) you get ten stories per month. After that you have to pay (or you erase your cookies, or use Google searches, since you can get access if you come via Google).
google searchesFT Boss: Positive Thinking And Balls Are The Secrets To A Succes...Techdirt Wed, 03/10/2010 - 12:16
Should Google Rank Sites Based on Speed?Mashable! Sun, 11/15/2009 - 22:30
Gmail Outage Causes a Google FrenzyMashable! Tue, 09/01/2009 - 17:33
A Defamation Declaration: Google Wins U.K. Libel SuitLinux Today Wed, 07/22/2009 - 09:33
Wall Street Journal: "Justice David Eady ruled that Google's Internet search engine isn't considered a publisher under defamation law, and therefore isn't responsible for the content of the short descriptions of Web sites that appear in Google searches." |
Google’s Matt Cutts hinted this past week that Google is considering using a site’s speed as part of the al
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