Google Files Lawsuit Against SerpApi for Large-Scale Search Result Scraping

Google has initiated legal action against SerpApi, a company providing web scraping tools, accusing it of unlawfully accessing and extracting Google's search results on a massive scale using deceptive methods. SerpApi allegedly sells this scraped data to clients, prompting Google to claim copyright infringement. The lawsuit references a similar case where Reddit sued SerpApi and other scrapers for harvesting content to supply the AI startup Perplexity. However, Google's filing stops short of directly mentioning AI applications like Perplexity in its claims.