The Anvil of Stars is no picnic either... 5. Some humans survive on Mars 6. Little kids are sent on a mission to avenge the Earth.

So much this. Baxter gets my vote for most depressing modern writer. Every. Single. Book is the end of humans. When I'm reading about genetically modified squid outracing the heat death of the universe I start hunting for sharp objects...

It's Google's requirement under "First Click Free" that if coming from Google, you have to be able to see the full content of the page. If not, it's cloaking and bad things happen. Yahoo uses Bing and I'm pretty sure Bing is copying all Google policies down the letter :)

Stack's gotten a lot worse with popularity and the newer sites on stack exchange range from okay to ghost towns. While sometimes you get a great set of answers, more often than not you get a horde of people editing your question into something different just so they can earn the boy scout badges and rep. There's plenty of garbage floating around there now.

There's a whole discussion right about you that pretty much explains why this isn't the case.

How is it cheating? At least they will display the answer. Try getting a recipe from Cooks Illustrated or something from Consumer Reports.

Nah, it's just the requirements of the search engines that visitors from the search engine see what the search engine sees. If you try to come in without that, you will see the paywall. Folks have to make money...big web sites aren't free to run anymore.