By Blake Brittain
Publication Date: 2025-12-19 22:57:00
Dec 19 (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) on Friday sued a Texas company that “scrapes” data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests to access copyrighted material and “take it for free at an astonishing scale.”
The lawsuit against SerpApi, filed in federal court in California, said the company bypassed Google’s data protections to steal the content and sell it to third parties.
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SerpApi said in a statement that it will “vigorously defend itself in court.”
“The information we provide is the same information any person can see in their browser without signing in,” SerpApi said. “We believe this lawsuit is an effort to stifle competition from the innovators who rely on our services to build next-generation AI, security, browsers, productivity, and many other applications.”
“We devote significant resources to fighting this abuse and protecting websites’ content in our results,” Google general…
