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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
Those of you who, rightly, would never download a pirated book, ask yourselves what you're doing when you "View cached copy" on a Google search results page.
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That one's easy. I work around crappy web design, site navigation, or file format decisions which make it unnecessarily hard for me to access the publicly available content I want to read. In other words, I use it for exactly the same things that people try to achieve when they remove the DRM from their e-books and/or format shift them to something more usable. I also avail myself of the color coding Google inserts for my search terms, which makes sifting through large documents much easier.
In other words, yes, they do add something of value when they cache other people's publicly available content on their servers.