Google has escalated its fight over who gets to profit from the web’s data, filing a lawsuit that accuses rival SerpApi of “stealing” AI-ready information by scraping Google Search at massive scale.

SerpAPI said it will “vigorously defend” itself after being sued by Reddit for allegedly scraping and reselling data from the platform via Google Search results. The response. SerpAPI called Reddit’s ...

On Friday, Google announced it had filed a lawsuit (PDF) against SerpApi for scraping the Google search results. Google alleges that SerpApi is running an "unlawful" operation that bypasses Google’s ...

Austin, Texas--(Newsfile Corp. - December 19, 2025) - SerpApi announced the expansion of its search data platform with new AI-focused capabilities designed to help businesses access, monitor, and ...

“Google argued that ‘SerpApi’s business model is parasitic,’ and that it ‘appropriates the output of other services that have made substantial investments to generate it.’” On December 19, Google LLC ...

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law ...

Google has sued a crawling (data extraction) firm that scrapes its search results. The move is seen as an attempt to prevent data collected through crawling from being used to train rival generative ...

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...

It feels premature to talk about the “good old days” of search engine optimization. But as anyone who has performed a search recently knows all too well, things aren’t what they used to be. Gone are ...