Official Google Blog: Our approach to content: Because we don?t own this content, over the years we?ve come up with three primary principles to ensure that we respect content owners and protect their rights:
* we respect copyright;
* we let owners choose whether we index their content in our products;
* we try to bring benefit back to content owners by partnering with them.
(BTW: Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas.)
