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Perhaps I am misunderstanding or over simplifying things but it always surprises me that there are legal cases brought against companies who scrape data when so many of Google's products are doing exactly this.

It definitely feels like one set of rules for them and a different set for everyone else.

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I mean it's not that weird that a company would authorize major search engines scraping them but no one else.

I don't really see this as Google playing by different rules so much as economic incentives being aligned in Google's favor.

Google doesn't scrape anything that the site owner objects to.

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