Google Sues Web Scraper For Sucking Up Search Results ‘at An Astonishing Scale’

Google has revenge a suit against SerpApi, a institution that offers devices to scrape contented connected nan web, including Google's hunt results. SerpApi is accused of violating nan Copyright Act by utilizing "deceptive means" to automatically entree and return Google's hunt results "at an astonishing scale" earlier trading nan information to customers.

Reddit besides sued SerpApi, on pinch 2 different information scrapers, successful October, accusing "at slightest one" of ripping contented from its tract for nan AI startup Perplexity. Though Google's title concisely mentions Reddit's suit against SerpApi, it doesn't straight opportunity thing astir Perplexity aliases AI bots.

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