> Anyone can go build a crawler and scrape the web the way Google scrapes it so they can compete with Google.
They cannot. Googlebot & some other search engine bots (like Bing's & Yandex's) get special treatment in various websites. This includes things like ban on non-whitelisted scrapers & bypassing paywalls. If you are not already established player in the field, you would not get able to scrape the same websites as the established players can.
They cannot. Googlebot & some other search engine bots (like Bing's & Yandex's) get special treatment in various websites. This includes things like ban on non-whitelisted scrapers & bypassing paywalls. If you are not already established player in the field, you would not get able to scrape the same websites as the established players can.