Are you frustrated when trying to retrieve an article you saw published in The New York Times on its own site, but discover that it’s one of those #$%#% “Premium” items available only to subscribers? Before you give up, make sure you try searching Google News too. I’ve discovered that certain technology-oriented articles are often locked up on the Times‘ own site, but links are made freely available on Google News.

For instance, a piece about convenient back-up processes and tools published on September 7th titled “Don’t Keep All Your Data in One Stash” was unretrievable directly from the Times’ site, but a search on Google News retrieved a working URL, here.

This is an example of the upside of all the various ways publishers make their information available–and unavailable–just because it’s not accessible from one site–even the official one–doesn’t mean you might not be able to get it from another site.

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