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by splaytreemap 1969 days ago
It's the exact opposite of parasitic. Search engines scrape your site so that they can help users find your site.

If you don't want Google scraping your content, add a noindex directive or robots.txt to your site and Google won't scrape it or link to it.

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At best it is symbiotic. But the imbalance in power makes it parasitic as Google will absolutely leverage its power to make sure they receive the most out of the arrangement. I think parasite fits better since the content creator can exist without google, but google cannot exist without the content creator.