Demaestro - 3:53 pm on Nov 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

so until they block our bot, we're all well within our rights to scrape and republish their stuff. that is the argument that google are using against murdoch.

Yes based on what you are saying you will be allowed as long as you don't republish it word for word.... would you use snippets of snippets in that case?

I say go for it. You won't be the first, you might even make an income from it.

Google doesn't get to play by any special rules that you don't. If they can do it, you can do it.

That is why they aren't the only search engine out there.

I don't understand your point about scraping Google, do you think they would be bothered by it? If they were they would just add that page to their robots entry and request that you don't index their site. Something Murdoch will never ask Google to do because they know that it would.