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So you are saying that each search result page are handwritten by Google editors?

Of course they are not, they are simply re-published snippets of the websites along and Google surrounds the results with ads.

While it's a symbiotic relationship that most websites want - sharing their content for placement in Google's webpages - it's not necessarily universal and ROBOTS.TXT is hardly a "contract" covering your data's usage.




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