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by kazinator 4041 days ago
Doesn't work for me. All results are either parasitic sites' scrapes of the headline pointing to the original page, or that page itself. Nothing has the full text.

The first Google hit from where I'm sitting leads to exactly the same URL as our submission:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/college-dropouts-thrive-in-tech-...

[EDIT: Problem solved. Searched using https://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect). Looks like country-redirected Google uses a country-redirected Referer also, and WSJ is chummy only with the American google.com.]

2 comments

The WSJ paywall doesn't appear when you come from a Google search link. So it will be the same URL, but because of the referrer, you'll see the full text.
Its supposed to show the full article if the referrer URL is google. Try limiting the search domain to WSJ? I'm not sure why that wodnt be showing up for you in the normal results.