This morning there are several articles talking about a new Yahoo (beta, of course) search engine that “trolls through subscriber-only web sites once off-limits to search programs.” I wish some of these online news publications would stop being so darned stingy and actually use hyperlinks, grrr. I did some searching around including research.yahoo.com and couldn’t find so I returned to the articles to look more carefully. CNET had it but because they don’t underline their hyperlinks (another thing I find annoying), I missed it on the first read. Reuters supplied the link — not hyperlinked though. Here it is, emphasized: search.yahoo.com/subscriptions:

Yahoo Search Subscriptions will initially offer content from such providers as ConsumerReports.org, The Wall Street Journal Online, The New England Journal of Medicine and Forrester Research Inc. Users can see content from the sites they subscribe to, while nonsubscribers have the option of paying to see it.

Publishers that are interested in letting Yahoo spider their subscriber area can fill out the Publisher Interest form here to be contacted. Not sure if or what this costs the publisher. If the price is right and the content is there then this could be a good supplemental marketing area for a subscriber areas.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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