Court dismisses Google’s DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi over search scraping
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-07-22
Court dismisses Google’s lawsuit against SerpApi
A U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California granted SerpApi’s motion to dismiss Google’s lawsuit over large-scale scraping of search results.
- Google had argued that scraping its results at scale violated the DMCA.
- The dismissal is being framed by SerpApi as a win for open access to public web information.
- SerpApi says it will keep supporting developers, AI companies, researchers, and businesses that rely on search data.
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