> It's as if google owns a newspaper store, that they allow any person to just browse for free. In a real world newsagents you'd be told to buy or GTFO because

> It's as if google owns a newspaper store, that they allow any person to just browse for free. In a real world newsagents you'd be told to buy or GTFO because the newsagent makes money from selling the papers. But because google already made their money, they sell the land, they gleefully give it away for free. I've never tried this at a newsagent, but on multiple visits to bookstores I've just read different books without a transaction. Newsagents do have the power to tell google to GTFO by editing their robots.txt though