[mutatio]

It's funny in the context of Google's past motto of "don't be evil". I feel the right thing for Google here would have been to decline any deal regarding exclusivity, then Reddit wouldn't have pulled the trigger with its robots.txt update. The entire manoeuvre required both parties.

[peddling-brink]

Google should abandon its mission to “organize the world’s information” because doing so requires spending money for valuable data, and others might not want to spend that money?