SerpApi, a company that scrapes data, has asked a court to throw out a DMCA lawsuit that Google filed against them. SerpApi says that Google Google lacks standing as it doesn’t own the copyrights to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, ...

In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies. By Mike Isaac Reporting from San ...

Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,” he wrote.

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...