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Emma Roth @ The Verge 2 place · today 15:48 EDT

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using "deceptive means" to automatically access and take Google's search results "at an astonishing scale" before selling the data to customers. Reddit also sued […]

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