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by sshine 1370 days ago
> So, when Google scraped the internet to provide search engine, that was okay, but when some other site scrapes something, it is not?

No, but when Google scraped the Internet, nobody did anything about it.

The value they added by making everything searchable was so great.

Giving content creators platform flexibility is clearly a threat to YouTube.

Double standards are twice as good.

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> The value they added by making everything searchable was so great.

Altavista, yahoo

++Google