I don't understand what this comment is referring to. Google's spider respects robots.txt, just block all paths and google will not crawl your site. So too for Bing, Yahoo, Baidu (some complications though, I think), Yandex.... Most of the major spiders respect robots.txt.
Is there some major Google web scraping effort I'm not aware of?
Is there some major Google web scraping effort I'm not aware of?