{"id":308619,"date":"2026-02-20T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308619\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:49:07","slug":"web-scraper-sued-by-google-claims-google-is-the-one-scraping-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308619\/","title":{"rendered":"Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, is <a href=\"https:\/\/serpapi.com\/blog\/google-v-serpapi-motion-to-dismiss-why-were-in-the-right\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fighting back against<\/a> Google\u2019s copyright lawsuit that accuses it of vacuuming up search results \u201cat an astonishing scale.\u201d In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/27346010-serpapi-motion-to-dismiss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">motion to dismiss filed on Friday<\/a>, SerpApi argues that Google doesn\u2019t hold a copyright on its search results, alleging that the engine is built \u201con the backs of others who posted \u2018the world\u2019s information.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/848365\/google-scraper-lawsuit-serpapi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google sued SerpApi<\/a>, claiming the smaller scraper had violated the Copyright Act by using \u201cdeceptive means\u201d to access and scrape its search results. Google also alleges that SerpApi found a way to bypass its anti-scraping SearchGuard feature. But SerpApi\u2019s motion to dismiss argues that Google is \u201cthe largest scraper on the planet,\u201d and that SerpApi is just doing \u201cwhat Google does to everyone else:\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">Just like Google \u2014 but at a much smaller scale \u2014 SerpApi uses \u2018automated means\u2019 to scrape public websites, which it then synthesizes and makes available to its own customers in ways it believes they will find relevant and useful. This, of course, is exactly what Google does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">SerpApi alleges that Google \u201cdoes not claim ownership\u201d over its search results, and that \u201cthe information it scrapes from public websites is not protected by copyright access controls.\u201d The company also claims that it did not violate the Copyright Act by circumventing SearchGuard, because the tool is allegedly only designed to protect Google\u2019s business \u2014 not licensed content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, is fighting back against Google\u2019s copyright&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1711,61,60,43,3667,216,80,514],"class_list":["post-308619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-google","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}