Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

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

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

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