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Google will let newspaper publishers limit the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.

Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press (usually his own outlets) that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did today after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles on the Wall Street Journal's website, WSJ.com.

Adding Wikipedia articles to those from publications used by Google News began as an experiment seen by a small percentage of users.

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