"Google's complaint asserted that its search services are the product of "enormous investments of human and financial capital." Through what the filing described as "decades of experimentation, enhancements, and expenditures," Google has developed "first-in-class methods" for understanding what its users are looking for and locating relevant content from the vastness of the World Wide Web. The filing detailed how Google incorporates licensed copyrighted content into its search results for various services."
"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.' SerpApi offers its customers a 'Google Search API' that it advertises as a way to 'Scrape Google,' according to the complaint. The filing stated that SerpApi uses automated means to scrape this content at an 'astonishing scale' and then sells it to its customers."
On December 19, Google LLC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging violations of the DMCA against SerpApi, LLC. The complaint asserts that SerpApi circumvents technological barriers to scrape copyrighted content from Google Search results at massive scale. Google describes its search services as the product of enormous investments and first-in-class methods developed through decades of experimentation and expenditure. The complaint outlines inclusion of licensed content in Knowledge Panels, Google Maps, and Google Shopping. Google alleges SerpApis automated requests increased dramatically and that SerpApi then sells the scraped content via a marketed API.
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