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By Jane Wardell, AP
Cleveland.com
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Google Inc. is allowing publishers of paid content to limit the number of free news articles<\/strong> accessed by people using its Internet search engine, a concession to an increasingly disgruntled media industry.<\/p>\n

There has been mounting criticism of Google’s practices from media publishers — most notably News Corp. chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch — that argue the company is profiting from online news pages.<\/p>\n

In an official blog entry posted late Tuesday, Josh Cohen, Google’s senior business product manager, said the company had updated its so-called First Click Free program so publishers can limit users to viewing no more than five articles a day without registering or subscribing.<\/p>\n

Previously, each click from a user of Google’s search engine would be treated as free. <\/p>\n

“If you’re a Google user, this means that you may start to see a registration page after you’ve clicked through to more than five articles on the website of a publisher using First Click Free in a day … while allowing publishers to focus on potential subscribers who are accessing a lot of their content on a regular basis,” Cohen said in the post.<\/p>\n

Murdoch on Tuesday told a Washington D.C. conference that media companies should charge for content and stop news aggregators like Google from “feeding off the hard-earned efforts and investments of others.” . . READ FULL STORY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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