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Check out revenues (or lack thereof) of Boston Glob....

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but were about flat excluding proceeds from online information provider About.com.

For what it's worth, my antispyware software tells me that About.com is a spyware site. In fact, it does seem to manage to install cookies on my computer from time to time even though I don't use it.

I don't know how much money the NYT will make on it once people figure out that they are being abused.