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A court dismisses Google's lawsuit over search result scraping
A federal court threw out Google's case against SerpApi, a company scraping Google Search results. Google argued bypassing its anti-bot systems was unlawful; the court disagreed.

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For you, this means SERP data access survives a major legal test, so rank-tracking and SERP tools keep their footing for now.
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A court dismisses Google's lawsuit over search result scraping
A federal court threw out Google's case against SerpApi, a company scraping Google Search results. Google argued bypassing its anti-bot systems was unlawful; the court disagreed. For you, this means SERP data access survives a major legal test, so rank-tracking and SERP tools keep their footing for now.
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