[SEJeff]

And if you do, simply take the title, and dump it into Google. The wsj has a stupid rule where they won't require you to have an account to read the full article if your referrer is google.

I created a small greasemonkey script to set the referrer on all wsj websites to google. Works like a champ!

[toomuchtodo]

> I created a small greasemonkey script to set the referrer on all wsj websites to google. Works like a champ!

Gist please!

EDIT: Quick google search found it: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/72558.html

[PawelDecowski]

Isn’t that against Google’s T&Cs? I’m sure a website is not allowed to present different content to GoogleBot than it does to regular users. Not sure if there’s a rule that says it can’t present different content when a user clicks on a search result vs goes directly to the website or from another referrer.

[mfonda]

They're probably using "First Click Free". See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-cli...

[PawelDecowski]

Thanks for this. Good to know about it.