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Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web

5h ago · curated by Catalyst Web Trendz

Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site's anti-bot defense against AI crawlers.

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