Atticus - 1:38 pm on Jun 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

Search engines spider the entire web and try to organize the data.

A scraper just copies links and snippets from search engines.

It's the same difference as a student who researches a subject and prepares a well thought out paper as opposed to another student who copies the paper his brother turned in a few years ago.

Scrapers and search engines do not get their content in the same way.

If you listen to the scraper people, Ansel Adams is a scraper human because he didn't invent trees and mountains, he just copies them. See, Ansel Adams and a Xerox machine are exactly the same thing! See how if I say that over and over again it becomes truer and truer!