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

Posted by cdrnsf 1 hour ago

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Comment by binarymax 17 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.

Comment by jonatron 20 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

Comment by thisislife2 25 minutes ago

I am somewhat confused - does this mean we can all now legally scrape Google search results?

Comment by rgrieselhuber 11 minutes ago

Always has been

Comment by super256 14 minutes ago

If only GPT wouldn't refuse my requests to write a crawler for $site. :(

Comment by xbar 58 minutes ago

Hypocrisy-rich.

Comment by ChrisArchitect 39 minutes ago

Source:

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

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

Comment by guardiangod 55 minutes ago

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly."

Comment by throwaway87543 7 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

Comment by Varelion 16 minutes ago

This sums up every single bit of AI "progress" since 2022.