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> Sorry, but Google drives traffic to their sites. That's what a search engine is supposed to do.

Then why are newspapers not so happy about it? http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/murdoch-google

And, BTW, just to be clear, Msft can't "scrape". That would violate robots.txt.

kelledin on Feb 4, 2011 [–]

> Then why are newspapers not so happy about it?

Rupert Murdoch and his kin are shortsighted, blustering fools when it comes to the 'net. Relying on their attitude to make your point is counterproductive at best.

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