Google Sues Texas Firm Over Alleged Massive Scraping of Search Data | PYMNTS.com

The complaint, lodged on Friday in federal court in California, targets SerpApi, a company that offers tools to collect and structure search engine results. Google alleges that SerpApi generated hundreds of millions of artificial search queries to gain access to content embedded in Google’s results and then resold that information to third parties, per Reuters.

Google contends that SerpApi deliberately bypassed technical safeguards designed to prevent automated scraping and protect content licensed from other publishers. The lawsuit argues that Google’s search pages, which incorporate licensed material across products such as Knowledge Panels, Google Maps, and Google Shopping, are particularly attractive to scrapers because of their depth and quality,…