> And it's also very fair, because search engines are, functionally and fundamentally, content scrapers. Everything they have and everything they offer is done

> And it's also very fair, because search engines are, functionally and fundamentally, content scrapers. Everything they have and everything they offer is done by consuming the work of others. I guarantee that if you make Google pay everyone they link to, they will charge everyone they link to that much + overhead, and everyone except weird hobby sites that don't care how many visitors they get will pay it. Google provides value to websites as well as consuming value from them.