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Google Lawsuit Against SerpApi Over Scraping Search Results Dismissed

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22 Jul
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12 Aug
Google Amends Lawsuit Against SerpApi Over Licensed Content

After Google's lawsuit against SerpAPI, the Google Search scraper tool, was dismissed a month ago, Google has decided to amend the complaint. Google filed the amendment on August

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22 Jul
Court Dismisses Google’s DMCA Claims Against SerpApi via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>A federal court dismissed Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi, ruling that blocking scrapers from public search results is not copyright circumvention on its own.</p> <p>The

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28 Jul
Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

<p>Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site's anti-bot defense against AI

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