Many commenters are interpreting this as strictly a matter of copyright violation, and are asking the question of whether facts can be copyrighted. But that's

Many commenters are interpreting this as strictly a matter of copyright violation, and are asking the question of whether facts can be copyrighted. But that's too narrow a way of looking at this; there's also antitrust law. If Google scrapes everything interesting off of other sites and presents it as their own, even if it finds a way to do this that does not violate copyright, it's anti-competitive behavior that may violate antitrust law. (I'm not addressing the European database protection rules which may also apply).