lammert - 6:18 pm on Mar 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

I am not affraid of Google caching my contents, nor am I affraid of scraper directories storing snippets of my sites.

What I try to say is that scraper directories in my opinion are a business model to earn money by displaying ads together with snippets of contents taken from other sites on the net. Google has the same business model: they also display ads together with snippets of contents taken from sites on the net. There is nothing wrong with this basic business model. The only difference between the two is that the Adsense content publisher gets paid by Google, but sees the scraper directories as competitor.

I did not want to devalue Google, but I wanted to outline that you can look at scraper directories from different perspectives because this was what the thread started with, the question why Google does not take much viewable action against scraper directories.