HOWTO: Registration Free NYTimes.com Links
With Google News you now never have to bother telling people that a link to the New York Times website requires a registration.
- Copy the text of the headline on the nytimes.com page that you want to link to
- Go to Google News
- Click in the search input field and then paste the text
- Search and then copy the link to your story
Google has a syndication deal with NYT not unlike that of UserLand that gives you links that don't require a registration.
Heck, one could even use one of the many Google bookmarklets to skip most of the hassle. No, they don't seem to work in Safari. Safari seems to have trouble with a bookmarklet getting the selected text on a page. C'est la vié n'est pas?
Registering for NY Times seems easier (and less harmful, even, given Google's privacy track record).
While this may be fine for the posted, it does nothing to prevent the reader from having to be registered with the NYT as well. That was the whole point in generating reg-free links for other people. Also, the links that Google News makes contain absolutely no information about the poster or the reader, so I don't understand how there is a privacy problem with Google on this one.