> > 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


I remember ages ago there was talk that a lot of the web would never get
indexed, being subscriber-only info, like IEEE, scientific journals, etc.
The proposed solution was if you wanted your site indexed, you gave Google a
subscription, and the deal was it didn't cache the pages.

Doesn't the google News work like that?

It's probably something simple like the site sees you aren't logged in or
don't have a cookie set (as would happen with a spider), and displays a
preview of the PDF.  It's that preview that shows up in the search.  I know
sites were switching content for the spider, but that can get you banned.

I know it won't happen, but has anyone asked the IEEE webmaster -
<http://ieee.org/web/services/general/webmaster.html>?  I presume these's a
member or two here.  $10 says money doesn't change hands.

Tony

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