StupidScript - 11:04 pm on Mar 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

aleksl: Yes .. search engines do indeed modify the standard "meatspace" behaviors AND modify online behaviors when compared to surfing instead of searching. This is yet another element in the "trust" cycle. I would be very interested to see any work done to analyse how visiting a scraper site affects behavior.

You also missed one point in your movie analogy. Movie company producing a trailer actually OWNS a trailer and the movie. Google doesn't own anything, it scrapes content just like every other scraper.

The movie company owns the trailer, and they encourage movie theaters and television stations (or pay them) to show the trailer (title plus brief description) of the movie in order to make people aware of it and get them to the theaters to experience it and reap its value.

I own my intellectual property and I encourage Google and Overture (or pay them) to spider my sites to show a link (title plus brief description) to my site in order to make people aware of it and get them to the site to experience it and reap its value.

Google = theater owner authorized to show my trailer
Scraper = punk with a video camera between his knees

[edited by: StupidScript at 11:10 pm (utc) on Mar. 29, 2005]