Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.
The Next Web
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A federal judge dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpApi, which scrapes Google search results to resell as structured data, ruling that search results are not copyrighted material protected under the DMCA. The court acknowledged SerpApi's circumvention of Google's anti-bot measures but found it legal since the protected content is not copyrighted. Google may refile a narrower claim regarding licensed snippets in knowledge panels but risks broader legal exposure.
