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Google shows a lot more than a link and increasingly is tailored to answer your question and prevent you from going to the site that provided the information in

by dangjc 8y ago

Google shows a lot more than a link and increasingly is tailored to answer your question and prevent you from going to the site that provided the information in the first place.

danShumway 8y ago
> is tailored to answer your question In the US, factual information can not be copyrighted. I believe it can in the EU, although I might be misrepresenting their official stance. At the very least, I'm pretty sure that the EU allows you to copyright databases. I'm sure EU residents can correct me if I'm missing some kind of subtlety. At least in the US though, there is nothing remotely illegal about looking up a fact on a website and then giving it to someone else directly, even if that diverts traffic away from the original site. Copyright was never intended to cover stuff like that.