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Re:Brave Search beta by SamBam on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:50PM (#27597665)
It's not scraping static text in order to point you to those sites, it's using the features of the site to perform a service better than you can do yourself. It's completely different.

If I made a site that claimed to help you with your math homework and simply sent the queries to WolframAlpha, that would also not just be "scraping."

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Re:Brave Search beta by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:17PM (#27599576)
This is basically what Google does to Wikipedia and rebrands as "Knowledge Graph".
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Re:Brave Search beta by SamBam on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:43PM (#27600207)
Google has donated many millions to the Wikimedia Foundation, basically in payment for this.

(But, again, there's a difference between scraping and echoing a request on another site and waiting for its response. The latter is basically unauthorized use of its API, not scraping.)

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Re:Brave Search beta by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:25AM (#27600781)
It'll be very telling if Google switches to using Wikipedia Enterprise: https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-finally-asking-big-tec...

My guess is Google's "donation" is pennies on the dollar from what they benefit from Wikipedia, and more of a token gesture than anything else.

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