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Re:Show HN: CloudScrape – Cloud-based web scraping platform by jumperjake on Saturday October 17, 2015 @12:37PM (#10404965)
You're confusing redistribution with scraping. Scraping publicly-accessible content is legal. Redistributing it is not (at least not in the US).

Google scraps webpages as a core competency.

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Re:Show HN: CloudScrape – Cloud-based web scraping platform by chinathrow on Sunday October 18, 2015 @04:21AM (#10407585)
Google also adheres to the robots.txt standard. Most of the scrapers I block don't.
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Re:Show HN: CloudScrape – Cloud-based web scraping platform by jumperjake on Sunday October 18, 2015 @12:01PM (#10408569)
Not correct. Google will completely ignore the rules in robots.txt if it deems it acceptable. I think there's a link to this somewhere in this comment page.
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Re:Show HN: CloudScrape – Cloud-based web scraping platform by chinathrow on Sunday October 18, 2015 @02:41PM (#10409212)
They do not index the content but might add the URL, correct. You can have a meta noindex present and they won't index even the URL.
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