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Hmm... but the whole internet is also indexed by Google and they make a lot of money out of the content.

Should they pay too?

If this was enforced would there be search engines?

One of the reasons behind the backlash against Google's AMP was that they would contain the full experience. You are on a Google's OS (at least significant amount of users are), on a Google browser, using a Google search service and from there you go to Google servers to get the content. The main difference is the last step.

It's different for websites because they are intentionally served up for free. Google had a very hard time getting a license to even index book contents. And there's an ongoing tension with paywalled websites. They do pay for some news sites, in the Google News Showcase.

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