Google allows news publishers to limit free content

In the recent news from Google, Paid publishers are allowed to limit the number of free articles accessed by people using its search engine.

Google has been criticized to profit from the online newspaper content that gets indexed in the search engine and users get the article free.

According to Google, company has updated its First Click Free program to limit viewing maximum five articles a day without subscribing or registering to the paid news publishers. So you may see that registration page may come up when you have seen so many articles that is not free or needs registration. This will surely help in targeting the potential subscribers who access lot of information on daily basis, without registering and free of cost.

The system will be coming soon and we will have to see how it works. What if the user will use different systems to search and view the articles? Future will tell us more about it.