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The article does say what Ton-That did violates most sites' TOS. It's now up to the sites to take legal action against him.

• microdrum 7y ago
  I mean, it's a search engine right? Google scrapes Facebook at global scale.
  • raldi 7y ago
    No it doesn’t. Google honors Facebook’s robots.txt, which excludes basically all the valuable data. It’s why they blew billions trying to get us all to switch to Google+.
    • microdrum 7y ago
      That's so weird because I see text and images from fb domains in google search results all the time. Likewise LinkedIn.
      • raldi 7y ago
        https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/28337/can-google-crawl-facebook-pages https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/28337/can-goo...
        • microdrum 7y ago
          Your link supports my statement.
• raldi 7y ago
  No, I’m talking about them being apparently vulnerable to a trillion-dollar copyright lawsuit from the users — that is, the owners of the copyrights on the photos they’re storing, analyzing, and redistributing.