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The use of intellectual property(images, text, ...) from a third party without consent is simply not legal in europe.

https://www.gov.uk/topic/intellectual-property/copyright

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright



Base on that, why Google (apart from being Google) and DuckDuckGo are able to legally list links (with images and small descriptions) to products in their shopping/products sections of search.



Though trade offer (list of products and their prices) may not be an intellectual property.




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