“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,” web scraper says after court win

Curiously invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Google sued SerpApi last December. The search giant accused the web scraper of circumventing its anti-scraping technology and then ...
HackerNoon

Best Proxy for Web Scraping: Top Providers Ranked

Compare the best proxy for web scraping in 2026. We ranked 10 top proxy providers on IP pool size, pricing, success rates, ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google NotebookLM Rebrand May Expose Your Site To More AI Scraping

Google has updated its list of Google user-triggered fetchers to reflect the Google Notebook name change. Users who have hardcoded the old user agent for robots.txt or for other reasons have a grace ...
Computerworld

Google’s anti-search-scraping lawsuit dismissed

A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there ...
The Next Web

Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.

Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Lawsuit Against SerpApi Over Scraping Search Results Dismissed

Last December, Google sued SerpApi over scraping its search results, and now a court has granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss the case. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed these claims ...
Android

Court Dismisses Google’s DMCA Lawsuit Against SerpApi as Public Facts Aren't Copyrighted

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed Google’s DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi, ruling that bypassing anti-bot measures like SearchGuard to scrape public search results does not violate ...
The New York Times

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed

As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul. Credit...Timo Lenzen Supported by By Kate Conger ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Court Dismisses Google’s DMCA Claims Against SerpApi

Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi were dismissed, a win for tools that scrape public search results. The court held that blocking scrapers from results with no copyrighted content is not copyright ...
Android

Google Refuses to Back Down in AI Scraping War Despite Legal Blow, Prepares Amended Complaint

Google originally sued SerpApi last December under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The company claimed the scraper bypassed security measures to sell ...
MediaPost

Judge Dismisses Google Complaint Against SerpApi Over Scraping

A federal judge has dismissed Google's complaint against the Texas-based company SerpApi, which allegedly circumvented attempts to prevent it from scraping search results. The ruling, issued Monday by ...