Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

 (techdirt.com)

50 points | by cdrnsf 1 hour ago

7 comments

  • binarymax 12 minutes ago
    I'd be more OK with this if Google had a good API for their search results. But they've deprecated it, and now there is no alternative. So I'll continue to use 3rd parties that scrape Google results, until they change their mind.
  • jonatron 16 minutes ago
    It's quite important that SERPs are scrapeable, because they keep advertising scams like ETA/ESTA sites: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56886957
  • thisislife2 20 minutes ago
    I am somewhat confused - does this mean we can all now legally scrape Google search results?
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  • super256 9 minutes ago
    [delayed]
  • xbar 53 minutes ago
    Hypocrisy-rich.
  • ChrisArchitect 34 minutes ago
    Source:

    Google vs. SerpApi: The Court Granted Our Motion to Dismiss

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995411

  • guardiangod 50 minutes ago
    “You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly."
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    • throwaway87543 2 minutes ago
      Google crawling respects robots.txt and doesn't break capcha. It is easy to tell Google to piss off. SerpAPI fully relies on end-user proxies distributed like malware (in LG tv apps for instance), it has no other way it could function because it exclusively ingests data from sources that tell it to stop. If you wanted to scrape a bot friendly site, you wouldn't need SerpApi
    • Varelion 11 minutes ago
      This sums up every single bit of AI "progress" since 2022.