Lately, half the results I get are pages that I cant view without paying to some service or signing up for a free trial.. Google literally serves up results that are unreachable ..
Absolute worst UX ever, yet they allow it because it's their SV buddies.
At one time, Google used to ban sites for "cloaking": offering one version of the page to the crawler, and another to the user.
But over time they got into trouble from these sites, getting sued left and right. Being accused of putting up a wall, and abusing their monopoly. Eventually, these sites won out and Google dropped this requirement.
It's a shame. I've really enjoyed a lot of the well written responses there but I can't be bothered to create another account.