Comment by AstroBen

2 months ago

> Defendant SerpApi, LLC (“SerpApi”) offers services that “scrape” this copyrighted content and more from Google, using deceptive means to automatically access and take it for free at an astonishing scale and then offering it to various customers for a fee. In doing so, SerpApi acquires for itself the valuable product of Google’s labors and investment in the content, and denies Google’s partners compensation for their works

this has to be satire. Is Google not the #1 entity guilty of exactly this?

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jefftk  2 months ago

No, Google doesn't use deceptive means. They identify their crawler as GoogleBot, and obey robots.txt.

  • Nextgrid  2 months ago

    Google doesn't have to do that now after already having established its own monopoly... just like SerpApi wouldn't have to act deceptively if they had a monopoly on search.

  • AstroBen  2 months ago

    Because they've forced everyone to allow them. They're the internet traffic mafia. Block them and you disappear from the internet

    They abuse this power to scrape your work, summarize it and cut you out as much as possible. Pure value extraction of others' work without equal return. Now intensified with AI

    But yeah, you're right. They're not deceptive

    • bitpush  2 months ago

      > Because they've forced everyone to allow them.

      nobody is forcing anyone. This is the same argument that people said about google search. Nobody is forcing anyone to use google search, google chrome, or even allow googlebot for scraping.

      Thousands of poeple have switched over to chatgpt, brave/firefox ..

      Your argument sounds like "I dont like Apple's practices, and I'm forced to buy iPhones. No buddy, if you dont like Apple, dont buy their products"

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