Google Loses Lawsuit Against Web Scraper, Escalating AI Data Scraping Battles
Ars Technica AI · rss · 2026-07-28
Following a significant court loss last week, Google has confirmed it will appeal to block AI bots from scraping its search results, with Reddit joining the fight. Google sued SerpApi in December, invoking the DMCA to accuse the web scraper of circumventing anti-scraping tech and selling scraped search data. SerpApi, after its win, publicly declared that 'Google and Reddit do not own the Internet.'
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