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

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google and other megacorps with AI slopbots: AI bots should be free to slurp up as much data as they want. It doesn’t break copyright!

  Also those companies: Wait, AI isn’t allowed to steal from us!

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also those companies: Wait, AI isn’t allowed to steal from us!

    It’s not even their own content. Google took the search results from the sites they crawled and scraped.

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  • Hackworth@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    <Three Spidermen Point>

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  • DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is fucking hilarious.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unless they pay us the USDB!

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• SouthFresh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From The Verge page: “SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content.”

  Bwahahahah! Oh, now that gave me a great laugh!

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Evading blocks isnt illegal

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is completely untrue. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act uses extremely broad wording. People have been sued for right clicking on a webpage and saying “View Source” before. Aaron Schwartz, co-founder of Reddit, was driven to suicide after a harassment campaign by the FBI and scientific paper publishers, as another example.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yet

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can you post the archive link so I don’t have to laugh at The Verge asking for me to give them money for their “journalism”?

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• actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How can it be scraping up Google search results when Google is no longer providing search results?

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ?

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think that they are dunking on google for only serving Ai summaries and high paying sponsored results.

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And here I thought the pitch for AI was all about democratizing knowledge. Womp womp.

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The irony.

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• goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• MildlyConcerned@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  AI-Generated Summary:

  • Google sues SerpApi for allegedly scraping search results at an “astonishing scale” by evading bot-blockers (SearchGuard) and selling the data, violating copyright laws.
  • SerpApi circumvented Google’s protections by masking automated queries as human traffic using fake browsers and multiple IP addresses.
  • Google seeks a court order to stop SerpApi’s scraping activities and destroy related technology, claiming it undermines licensed content and partnerships.

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