The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow ...

Google alleges SerpApi is a “parasitic” enterprise. SerpApi maintains its services are protected by the First Amendment and principles of fair use. A Texas-based web-scraping company faces legal ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

European regulators have opened a new antitrust investigation into Google, centering on whether the company illegally scraped online content to shore up its artificial intelligence products as it ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

Google cracked down on web scrapers that harvest search results data, triggering global outages at many popular rank tracking tools like Semrush that depend on providing fresh data from search results ...

In the age of online information and the rise of artificial intelligence, web scraping has become a widespread method for feeding and training AI systems. However, this proliferation presents major ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...