Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
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Google sued web scraping company SerpApi for illegally bypassing its SearchGuard technology to steal copyrighted search results at massive scale, then selling the data to customers. SerpApi circumvents Google's bot-blocking system by masking automated queries as human users through fake browsers and multiple IP addresses, violating copyright laws.
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