Wednesday 19 May 2010

How to read exclusive articles on the FT's website

I've made a comment about this in a previous post, but I'll make a more thorough point about it now in this post, if for no other reason that I'll refer to this post each time I'll link anything to a FT article.

Many times when I link to the FT's website, the article will not seem to be accessible. A message will pop up saying that you need to subscribe to access that type of article or that you have reached your limit for the number of article that you can view for a specific period of time (generally 30 days).

So here's the disenchanted magic: If you use firefox for example, although you won't be able to see the title of the article inside the window, because it is covered by the error message, you can still see it on the top left-hand corner of the screen, as the title of the window. All you have to do is to copy the title of the relevant article into google and search for it. Among the results that you'll obtain you'll find what seems, by all accounts, to a link to the window you were just redirected from this website. The only difference is that the link from google works, where as the link from this blog, or for that sake from the FT's own website does not.

So there you go. That's the googly magic of FT articles!

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