From San Jose Mercury News reporter Michael Bazeley's Siliconbeat.com blog:

We promised to forward Google's response to the scraping problem. Google spokesman Barry Schnitt just got back to us, and the general message seemed to us to be that the problems aren't big enough for Google to take action. He couldn't say much.

Two recurring themes for Google in this response to a question about what they do about people who violate their terms of service and scrape their search results.

• They only have time to deal with the big problems.
• They can't say much - it's all a big secret...

That pretty much sums up Google these days... The slow transformation to the dark side continues...

¶ 3/24/2005