europeforvisitors - 1:57 am on Mar 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

For the most part, the quality of SE traffic is the same whether it goes through a content middleman or a scraper middleman to the advertiser.

Even if that were true, why should Google want to share revenue with scrapers who aren't adding value to the search experience? In effect, Google is subsidizing competitors who, in amny cases, are stealing Google's own search results.