So, Google has created a special behavior for publishers to allow them to limit the number of click throughs. The reason for this is because some publishers want their cake and eat it too, without doing any effort to provide a shortened synopsis to Google, track returning customers via cookies, and wonder where the hell their readers went.
They got this special treatment by whining and name calling and promising that they're going to take their (somewhat limited, and potentially used) ball home if they didn't get "their way". Normally, i would usually treat such providers as the unruly child they seem to be and tell them either: 1. God helps those that help themselves. or 2. What? You're fingers broken or something?
Remarkably, instead Google rolled out a new "feature" which allows a subset of content providers the ability to limit the number of free click-throughs to five, and are calling it "First Click's Free". An example of both creative engineering and math.
Well, Google, i may be slightly smaller, and have an audience well into the tens, but the percentage of original content i produce vs content aggregated from outside sources is far higher than News Corp. As such, i'm also quite happy to make demands of your time and resources in order for you to provide me special treatment as well. i think that Fox Media (and a large number of News Corp publications) are poopy heads and bullies. i demand that you take action now and come mow my yard.
Yes, you heard me. While i'm apparently quite a degree more technically competent than they are, and therefore would find any solution regarding how you manage my traffic frustratingly insufficient since it's by definition outside of my control, my grass definitely needs a good trim up. And i expect you to sweep up the sidewalk after you're done.
(i'd also suggest not wearing those footie glove things because there are uneven parts and you may not spot the sprinkler heads if you're not paying attention, and i'm nice enough to not want you to stub your toes.)
i also fully realize that while making this demand that you come mow my yard i have absolutely zero intention of removing any of my content from your search index or archives (again, something that's trivial to implement). i'll merely continue to say not nice things about News Corp's appalling technical capacities and vague innuendos about how i might be in talks with another search engine to come by and do the weeding.
i expect your press announcements and/or lawn service shortly.
