I agree, that is purty wierd. Usually the wire service articles from Reuters just show up as a link to Reuters' site, and the AP links go to newspapers, I think. But then, when I do news story searches at Google nowadays, I always search through the Google News engine, and not the Web engine.

Maybe it has something to do with how the first story surfaces at Google vs. Google News search engines when they first come online? Dunno. But it still doesn't make sense that you and Amos could click through to the story from your link in the first post, but I got the subscription page. When you click onto the related stories link about Carson here isn't even showing the link to the Mercury News anymore! It was the first link when I typed in "Johnny Carson" at Google News at 2:23 p.m.!