From CNET: News search results for sites with paid subscriptions will no longer be demoted in Google search, Bloomberg reported Sunday. It's part of a Google move to offer better search and ad solutions for news sites with paywalls.
The biggest change is that Google is dropping its "first click free" program, which favored search results from news sites that offered a free click-through to a subscription paywall. Links that didn't offer a first free click were search demoted. That will change going forward. Google did not respond to a request for comment.
Google has also been working on developing improved ways to subscribe to news sites, starting with The New York Times and Financial Times.
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