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Originally Posted by nekokami
Let's suppose that one is responsible for providing critical information, e.g. current status on an epidemic. One would need to be able to control whether "stale" versions of that content are displayed. Google cache could display such stale content.
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That's what no-cache and robots.txt are for. Every search engine, that I know of, honors them.
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Regarding the second point: is it reasonable that Google assumes that content publishers want their sites to be listed within a Google search result, regardless of the fact that Google will place advertisements on that page? Is it legal? Is it an ethical use of publicly available, but privately owned data?
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It has already been ruled on in the US. Search engine indexing/caching is considered "fair use" by the courts. I don't know specifically what other countries have ruled, but I have never heard of a country that says it's illegal. I'd be interested in hearing about it, if you know of any.