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“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win

First publishedJul 27, 20:12 UTC

Last updatedJul 28, 01:37 UTC · 7m ago

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“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win

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After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly along for the ride.

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After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly along for the ride. Curiously invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Google sued SerpApi last December. The search giant accused the web scraper of circumventing its anti-scraping technology and then selling content scraped from Google search results through an unauthorized “Google Search API” software service.

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What's the story?: After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly along for the ride.
How widely is it covered?: 1 outlet, average source rating 7.0/10.
When was it last updated?: 7m ago.

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