Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
TL;DR
Google is suing SerpApi for allegedly scraping its search results on a massive scale and selling the data, violating copyright laws. This follows a similar lawsuit by Reddit against SerpApi and others for data misuse.
Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using "deceptive means" to automatically access and take Google's search results "at an astonishing scale" before selling the data to customers.
Reddit also sued SerpApi, along with two other data scrapers, in October, accusing "at least one" of ripping content from its site for the AI startup Perplexity. Though Google's complaint briefly mentions Reddit's lawsuit against SerpApi, it doesn't directly say anything about Perplexity or AI bots.
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