Search engines crawling millions of sites each with---on average---a few MB of data distributes cost globally.
Extracting terabytes of index data from a single search engine's repository consolidates the cost on the back of that repository's bandwidth provision.
Search engines crawling millions of sites each with---on average---a few MB of data distributes cost globally.
Extracting terabytes of index data from a single search engine's repository consolidates the cost on the back of that repository's bandwidth provision.
These are not symmetrical cost structures.