In its dismissal bid, SerpApi argues reading public Google results isn't DMCA circumvention and warns Reddit is stretching platform power. SerpApi is asking a federal court to dismiss Reddit’s lawsuit ...

Meta advertising isn’t just big — it’s massive and still expanding. In 2025, Meta’s advertising ecosystem captured roughly 42% of all global social media ad spend — an estimated $87 billion — dwarfing ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

SerpApi says Google is stretching the DMCA to protect ad revenue, not copyrights — casting the case as a fight over access to public SERPs. SerpApi is asking a federal court to dismiss Google’s ...

SerpApi, a company that scrapes data, has asked a court to throw out a DMCA lawsuit that Google filed against them. SerpApi says that Google Google lacks standing as it doesn’t own the copyrights to ...

SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, ...

QUESTION: How can CISOs defend against AI scraping? Areejit Banerjee, Senior Manager of Data Protection Strategy & Product Trust; Researcher in AI Governance, Purdue University: Organizations with ...

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...

“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 ...

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 ...