Google also curates and republishes data from a lot of sites, including news sites and informational sites that significantly reduces traffic to other sites, etc. There's a lot of data Google scraped that wasn't necessarily explicitly given permission to outside their page crawler. They chose "beg for forgiveness" over "ask for permission" in many cases.

The point being that there's irony in every direction, the proverbial "pot calling the kettle black." Lots of irony in both directions.