Google Sues SerpApi for Large-Scale Scraping of Search Results
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Summary
Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a web scraping company, accusing it of violating the Copyright Act by using deceptive means to automatically access and extract Google's search results 'at an astonishing scale' before selling the data to customers. The lawsuit follows similar legal action by Reddit against SerpApi and other data scrapers for allegedly ripping content for AI startup Perplexity.
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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.
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