Google sues data scraping company
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Google sues data scraping company
"Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google's protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search results, Reuters reports."
"According to the lawsuit, Serpapi then resold the collected data to third-party customers. The company denies the allegations and says it will defend itself in court."
"Serpapi says its service only provides information that is already publicly available through a standard web browser. According to the company, Google is trying to limit competition from companies building new AI and web services on open web data."
Google has filed a lawsuit alleging that Serpapi used hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google's protection system and obtain copyrighted material from search results. The lawsuit asserts that Serpapi resold the collected search-result data to third-party customers. Serpapi denies the allegations and states that it will defend itself in court. Serpapi also states that its service provides only information already publicly accessible through a standard web browser and alleges that Google aims to limit competition from companies building new AI and web services using open web data.
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