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How is Serp not sued to oblivion?

• crowcroft 2y ago
  I suspect that Google finds value in the role they play in the market. There is demand for search APIs, and companies like Kagi can build a business around that, grow and then compete more generally with Google over time. Serp makes that difficult. For competitive reasons Google might not want to sell a search API directly (they might indirectly fuel a lot of competition against their main ad supported product). So letting Serp offer this service in a bit of a gray area makes it hard for competitors to form a beach head in search, while giving Google legal flexibility to shut down any service that tries to compete with them in any way through Serp's data.
• kingstoned 2y ago
  Sued for what? For scraping a website? That is Google's main business.
• dooglius 2y ago
  https://serpapi.com/blog/scraping-public-pages-legality/ https://serpapi.com/blog/scraping-public-pages-legality/