Nate Duehr wrote: >> Harold Hallikainen hallikainen.org> writes: > >> is nothing sinister about it (but I'd still want to know why those >> ieee.org 'sell' pages get ranked so high without having content >> accessible to usual browsers w/o paying). > > IEEE probably allows the GoogleBot into the PDF's... somehow. As > someone pointed out, masquerading as the GoogleBot doesn't work... There's nothing very special about a GoogleBot that IEEE could know and nobody else. And if just onebody else knew about it, all would have free access... so I don't think this is a go. And -- as mentioned here before, Google /knows/ that the IEEE pages it indexes are not public. I still find it quite odd to find non-public content indexed and probably never will get used to this. That goes for subscription-only news sites, too. I don't think this is because they are so popular. I'm sure the ones who have access to IEEE or would buy their papers based on a Google search are a dwindling minority of Google users. All others just get annoyed by this. There must be another reason... and as always, money leads the suspicions. Gerhard -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist