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Literally every page Google shows you, where it also shows you those ads it makes money from, is Google's content and it is derived from the data it gets scraping the web.
What the fuck are you even talking about? Making a list of website identifiers (names and URLs) so that people can go to them isn't even slightly the same as making a derived work of the websites' contents.
That is not how Google operates.
ok thanks google ceo. please explain
Google has to scrape and process the entire webpage and analyze the content to figure out which links to provide you. The end result of them presenting you with those links is from them copying and processing all your site's data, including when you aren't listed in the search results.
No, anything Google shows you is kosher and totally symbiotic. A website being shown on Google is at the site owner's discretion - if they allow search engines to crawl they get the benefit of exposure, and the search engine gets the benefit of having relevant hits and ad revenue and all that. Most sites want click-throughs so it's usually in their best interest to let search engines list their sites.
Google isn't exploiting anyone, kinda the opposite, since site owners don't pay for any ads or exposure (but that exposure has so much value that they'll pay for SEO). Site owners can decline and Google abides. Anything on Google is on Google with consent.