aleksl - 11:55 pm on Mar 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

I guess I need to rest my case here...I don't seem to get through, or folks are having difficulties to make a step from part to whole.

* Googlebot comes to your site.
* Googlebot scrapes ALL content and ALL images
* Google places a cached version of your site on their server (A COPY OF EACH PAGE OF YOUR SITE). A user can spend all day browsing your site in Google and never actually hitting your site once.
* Google places snippets of pictures from your site into Google Images. It then FRAMES your site to encourage user to stay in Google

Replace Googlebot with "scrapebot" and Google with "scraper site" in this definition, and then I want to see you argue that Google is not a scraper site. PER "SCRAPER SITE" DEFINITION.

Let's define terms here
Search Engine: a website that collects snippets of content from other websites and displays it in search results. FOR PROFIT (AdWords).
Scraper Site: a website that collects snippets of content from other websites and displays it for a given keyword. For Profit (AdSense).

Err?

<edit>Before Search Engines have clearly separated Ads from free SERPs, they were a constant target for lawsuits</edit>

Also, and I hope I clarified this before, I do not defend scraper scumbags. My argument was originally that "Why does Google AdSense sponsor 'scraper' sites: because Google is essentially a scraper site".