hyperkik - 6:14 pm on Jun 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

As used in case law to date, a scraper is a site which makes unauthorized use of another site's copyrighted content. By that operating definition Google is not a scraper, as nobody has to be listed in Google, and Google will respect anybody's wish not to be indexed or cached.

Scrapers offer no such respect for the intellectual property of others, or couch their "respect" in terms of "if you want us to delist you, you have to block all spiders (and be delisted from every legitimate search engine along with our garbage sites)."