NY Times amongst the cloakers

and how to bypass their sloppy cloaking techniques

[alxdean]

Just thought I'd share this with you...
While searching for some info on google I stumbled across a NY Times article. But when I opened the article all I got was the sign in box. darn. So I thought, try google cache, but they were clever enough to add a nocache directive. No luck there.

But the google snippet had some real text from the article, so I know they are serving google something different than me. trying to make my mouth water by getting the pages included in the google index but snatching away the cake before I can eat it!

What the boys didn't think of though, was the google translation tool. Simply translate the page from X to English and voilla you get served the cloaked content!
I guess NY Times are going to stuff that hole one day, but in the mean time it makes research so much easier!

[outrun]

Did you click the URL from Google News? Are your refferers blocked because if you click from Google News it should show the article. Google has a deal with some News Subscription sites to crawl there data.

regards,
Mark

[alxdean]

no, it was a normal google serp. But thanks for the tip. didn't know that Google had such special deals. I thought that once the article expires and goes into the archive it is subscription only, so I was really chuffed at having found a way around it.