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by throwawaysoxjje 162 days ago
Scraping for search engines is different. They need to scrape the data to build the index, otherwise the search wouldn’t work.
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Being indexed in a search engine benefits the website owner, as it drives traffic towards the website.

Being used as AI training data provides negative value for a website owner, as it takes traffic away.

It's the difference between a movie review, and a ripped torrent.