The Google Terms of Service is the legal agreement that defines the relationship, rules, and mutual expectations between Google and its users. It establishes what you can expect from Google when using their services, and what Google expects from you in return. Core Rules of Conduct
The agreement requires all users to maintain a respectful environment. You are prohibited from abusing, disrupting, or harming Google’s systems or other users. Key restrictions include:
No system abuse: You cannot introduce malware, spam, hack, or bypass safety and protective measures.
No AI exploitation: You are forbidden from adversarial prompting, prompt injection, or using AI-generated content from Google to develop competing machine learning models.
No unauthorized automation: Scraping content, reverse engineering code, or utilizing automated scripts to bypass robots.txt files is strictly prohibited. Content Rights and Licensing Terms of Service – Privacy & Terms – Google
You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by:introducing malware. * spamming, Google Terms of Service