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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 alleges SerpApi is a “parasitic” enterprise. SerpApi maintains its services are protected by the First Amendment and principles of fair use. A Texas-based web-scraping company faces legal ...

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 ...

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...

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: ...

Generative AI companies and websites are locked in a bitter struggle over automated scraping. The AI companies are increasingly aggressive about downloading pages for use as training data; the ...

Is the data publicly available? How good is the quality of the data? How difficult is it to access the data? Even if the first two answers are a clear yes, we still can’t celebrate, because the last ...

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