Search engine scraping public known incident of a search engine being scraped happened in 2011 when Microsoft was caught scraping unknown keywords from Google for their own, rather new Bing service. () But even this incident did not result in a court case. One possible reason might be that search engines like Google are getting almost all their data by scraping millions of public reachable websites, also without reading and accepting those terms. A legal case won by Google against Microsoft would possibly put their whole business as risk. Search engine scraping Search engine scraping is the process of harvesting URLs, descriptions, or
Dragonfly (search engine) inconsistent with our mission, providing no information is more inconsistent with our mission," referring to the alternative of not servicing Chinese users at all. Google also downplayed the extent of the new search engine's censorship, reminding users that it also removes search results from its German, French, and U.S. platforms in order to comply with local government regulations in those countries. Ultimately, Google.cn received tepid acceptance: some commentators even praised the search engine with the logic that Chinese citizens, through conducting searches and observing which results had been removed, could better their understanding of what it was their government did