Comment Re:What is going one here? (Score 1) 236
This will only affect websites that currently charge for content.
Currently some websites allow you to see articles that should be hidden behind a paywall barrier for free if you appear to come from Google. It allows them to get their pages indexed in Google and get those users to those pages even though they are hidden to everyone else. They can then try and persuade the users to sign up based on the fact that they can only see 5 pages. It works for the organisations because they have get another marketing source and it works for Google because they get to add more into their index and give their users what they want.
So overall nothing will be changing. Previously if you'd visited five pages on the site and found a sixth through Google news, then you'd be thrown a page asking you to subscribe. Now you get told on the Google News page that you are going to. I, for one, am not that impressed because I don't go to those sites anyway.