Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
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#2> SerpApi deceptively takes content that Google licenses from others
They have a different definition of "licensing" than most people I guess. Aren't site operators complaining about Google using this "licensed" content in AI overviews... not to mention the scraping for AI model training.
The pot is calling the kettle black.
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#3I'm not sure of the legality but I definitely appreciate their product. This lawsuit seems odd because google themselves scrape content for their indexes. From what I see SerpApi is really just providing a machine interface that Google themselves refuses to provide users and visibility into SERPs which is also something that users should have available to them.
I'm probably just being naive though...
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#4SerpApi wouldn't even be a thing if Google offered an equivalent API...
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#5What’s the difference between scraping and malicious scraping? Does google engage in scraping or malicious scraping? Do the AI companies engage in scraping or malicious scraping?
Re: Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
#6yoink
* that's the sound of a ladder being yanked up
Re: Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
#7I'm not sure of the legality but I definitely appreciate their product. This lawsuit seems odd because google themselves scrape content for their indexes. From what I see SerpApi is really just providing a machine interface that Google themselves refuses to provide users and visibility into SERPs which is also something that users should have available to them. I'm probably just being naive though...
Google publishes how to control their bot - with robots.txt. They then obey those instructions. Google also takes some effort to not use all your bandwidth. Google isn't perfect, but they are at least making a "good faith" effort to be nice and this does count in court. Overall most will agree that in general what google does to allow people to find their website is worth the things that google is doing.
You can of course argue a lot of edge cases if you really want. For the most part I want to say "it isn't worth the argument". In some cases I will take your side if I really have to think about it, but in general the system google has been using mostly works and is mostly an acceptable compromise.
Re: Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
#8> SerpApi deceptively takes content that Google licenses from others They have a different definition of "licensing" than most people I guess. Aren't site operators complaining about Google using this "licensed" content in AI overviews... not to mention the scraping for AI model training. The pot is calling the kettle black.
As far as I know, Google respects robots.txt and doesn't obfuscate their crawlers, so you can easily block them if you want. It seems like an important distinction?
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#9Google can eat a bag of dicks.
Their entire ai model was scraped.
Re: Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
#10> Defendant SerpApi, LLC (“SerpApi”) offers services that “scrape” this copyrighted
content and more from Google, using deceptive means to automatically access and take it for free at an astonishing scale and then offering it to various customers for a fee. In doing so, SerpApi acquires for itself the valuable product of Google’s labors and investment in the content, and denies Google’s partners compensation for their works
this has to be satire. Is Google not the #1 entity guilty of exactly this?