“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 ...

Spotify has disabled multiple user accounts after an open-source group claimed it scraped millions of songs and related data from the music streaming platform. The move comes after Anna’s Archive ...

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, Google announced it had filed a lawsuit (PDF) against SerpApi for scraping the Google search results. Google alleges that SerpApi is running an "unlawful" operation that bypasses Google’s ...

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law ...

Generative AI companies and websites are locked in a bitter struggle over automated scraping. The AI companies are increasingly aggressive about downloading pages for use as training data; the ...

Abstract: Scraping is a topic studied from various perspectives, encompassing automatic and AI-based approaches, and a wide range of programming libraries that expedite development. As the volume of ...

AI 'No platform gets a free pass': UK government's Online Safety Act rules extending to chatbots after Grok fallout AI A human software engineer rejected an AI agent's code change request, only for ...

A team of researchers from the University of Vienna in Austria has disclosed the details of a novel enumeration technique that allowed them to scrape 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts. WhatsApp owner Meta ...