If this is about protecting third parties from being scraped, why does Google have an interest at all? Surely Google won't have the relevant third-party data it

If this is about protecting third parties from being scraped, why does Google have an interest at all? Surely Google won't have the relevant third-party data itself because, as you say, Google respects robots.txt. So how can that data be scraped from Google? I don't think this suit is actually about that, though. I think Google's complaint is that > SerpApi deceptively takes content that Google licenses from others In other words, this is just a good old-fashioned licence violation.