[acidzebra]

@Taylor: Metaphor... straining... sense... fading.

Seriously, how does google steal your site? If I go to the google search page to search on a keyword and your site comes up, I see a small excepts (and ads) while I am still on Google's page. Then I click the link, and I get taken to your page, where you can track to your heart's content. When I access the Google cache, it puts a big fat notice at the top. The rest of your examples have as far as I can tell no bearing at all to the whole Google issue, although I'm sure you feel they do.

If you don't want to get spidered on the internet, you put up a robots.txt. If you want more restrictions, use a challenge/response system. If you want even more restrictions, don't put it on the freaking internet to begin with.

I can just see any search engine company having to approach X billion content creators who post in a public place whether they can please access the publicly-posted content. Might as well close down the WWW.