August 11, 2026
Google is seeking to revive its lawsuit that accuses search engine scraping company SerpApi of circumventing Google's anti-bot system to access its search results, saying in a newly filed amended complaint that SerpApi is scraping content that copyright holders licensed to Google and authorized it to safeguard.
July 21, 2026
A California federal judge has dismissed Google's complaint accusing data-scraping company SerpApi of bypassing technological safeguards to copy and resell the tech giant's search results, ruling that Google did not plausibly allege its anti-scraping system operated with the authority of copyright owners whose content appeared in those results.
December 19, 2025
Google says data-scraping firm SerpApi circumvents its security measures protecting copyrighted content that appears in search results, alleging in a California federal lawsuit Friday that SerpApi steals content Google licenses from others "at an astonishing scale" and then resells it to its own customers.