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Commentary on WSJ’s Subscriber Strategy

From Wired, a critique of the Wall Street Journals’ adherence to a fee based subscription strategy that prevents search engine indexing of their extensive, authoritative, and highly regarded content. This in turn results in very limited linking to their articles by a ever expanding community of bloggers and website publishers. The debate should and will continue about fee vs. free content, but what really resonates is the bigger picture: those who interpret web search results as an accurate cross section of facts and commentary on specific events and issues (and this number is growing exponentially) may not even be cognizant of the amazing volume of relevant information they do not have the opportunity to assess.

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