{"id":58982,"date":"2009-12-02T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-News-Limits-the-First-Click-Free-Program-to-Just-Five-Clicks-128574.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-02T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T10:04:00","slug":"google-news-limits-the-first-click-free-program-to-just-five-clicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/58982","title":{"rendered":"Google News Limits the &#39;First Click Free&#39; Program to Just Five Clicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Google-News-Limits-the-First-Click-Free-Program-to-Just-Five-Clicks-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>The whole news publishers versus Google debacle keeps on going and, for the most part, Google is sitting on the sidelines. Once in a while it responds, indirectly, to the accusations by underlining the benefits it provides news sources. And to show that it&#8217;s not completely deaf to the criticism, Google is now changing the way the First Click Free program works by allowing news outlets to limit its use to just five clicks. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[W]e&#8217;ve updated the program so that publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing. If you&#8217;re a Google user, this means that you may start to see a registration page after you&#8217;ve clicked through to more than five articles on the website of a publisher using First Click Free in a day,&rdquo; Josh Cohen, senior business product manager at Google wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Through the program, users coming from Google News or the search engine are able to view articles that are otherwise behind a paywall. Google implemented the program as a way for paid content websites to get around the company&#8217;s policies against &#8216;cloaking&#8217;, the practice of feeding the crawler a version of the page and the users a different one. It&#8217;s obvious why Google doesn&#8217;t like this, but it posed a problem for publishers who wanted their content indexed &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-News-Limits-the-First-Click-Free-Program-to-Just-Five-Clicks-128574.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole news publishers versus Google debacle keeps on going and, for the most part, Google is sitting on the sidelines. Once in a while it responds, indirectly, to the accusations by underlining the benefits it provides news sources. And to show that it&#8217;s not completely deaf to the criticism, Google is now changing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}