Surfarama

It’s well known that you can access complete WSJ articles via Google News which you can’t access directly when navigating their own site. Not quite sure of the rationale for this but to make it easier to access complete articles you can use the following bookmarklet to find the URL for complete articles on wsj.com…

Find WSJ article <– drag this link to your browser bookmarks bar

How to:

• Drag that bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks bar
• When you find yourself on a wsj.com page looking at a article stub, just highlite some of the article text with your cursor then click the bookmarklet
• The bookmarklet will then execute a site search on wsj.com looking for pages which mention the highlited text specifically. Invariably it will find the URL for the complete article

Really makes you wonder about the purpose of ‘hiding’ the full article in the first place. With all the talk they’ve been making recently about the paywall I fully expect them to close this loop hole anytime.