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This is basically cloaking (showing your content one way to regular readers and showing it a different way to search engines,) which could get you slapped by Google. Not worth this risk IMO. However, maybe there is a way to do this so you don't have to cloak? Not sure, I have never looked into it.

Just support Google's AJAX crawling standards and disallow the escaped_fragment requests from crawlers that are not on your whitelist.

... Isn't that exactly what the New York Times does with its required sign-on? You get prompted to sign in unless the referrer URL is google.

I didn't say cloaking, you can show the same content in javascript and html. Show html for search engines.

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