“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 alleges SerpApi is a “parasitic” enterprise. SerpApi maintains its services are protected by the First Amendment and principles of fair use. Explore the entire Law.com network. Enjoy free ...

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 ...

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 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: ...

RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web. RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across ...

It's becoming harder and harder to know what the rules are when it comes to generative AI. With Meta, X, and even the UK government behind opt-out models, it feels like AI is in a "steal first, ask ...

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 ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Multiple tests have suggested ChatGPT is using Google Search. Well, a new report seems to confirm ChatGPT is indeed using Google Search data. The details. OpenAI used SerpApi, an 8-year-old scraping ...

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 ...