“Google argued that ‘SerpApi’s business model is parasitic,’ and that it ‘appropriates the output of other services that have made substantial investments to generate it.’” On December 19, Google LLC ...

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...

Google is suing SerpApi, a web-scraping company that provides its customers with an API that mimics human searching, the latest salvo in the battle over access to data for training and operating AI ...

Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against a Texas-based company it accuses of extracting large amounts of data from its search results, claiming the practice undermines protections around copyrighted ...

Google claims SerpApi built tools specifically to bypass its new "SearchGuard" defense system. The lawsuit targets the "trafficking" of circumvention tools under the DMCA, not just scraping. Google is ...

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...

On Friday, Google announced it had filed a lawsuit (PDF) against SerpApi for scraping the Google search results. Google alleges that SerpApi is running an "unlawful" operation that bypasses Google’s ...

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

Google lawsuit says data scraping company uses fake searches to steal web content Google on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of ...

It feels premature to talk about the “good old days” of search engine optimization. But as anyone who has performed a search recently knows all too well, things aren’t what they used to be. Gone are ...