The report found that LinkedIn will look for 6,222 extensions and claims the company can harness the data to profile users and see whether they’re using competitors’ software. However, LinkedIn says ...

When someone asks: "How did you structure your web scraper?" Your Answer: "I used the exact same Page Object Model (POM) design pattern as my login framework, but adapted it for extracting data ...

SerpApi is asking a federal court to dismiss Google's DMCA lawsuit. It argues Google lacks standing to bring anti-circumvention claims over search results that display third-party content. The case ...

SerpApi, a company that scrapes data, has asked a court to throw out a DMCA lawsuit that Google filed against them. SerpApi says that Google Google lacks standing as it doesn’t own the copyrights to ...

SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Cloudflare data shows Anthropic and OpenAI are crawling the web and sending very few referrals. The crawl-to-refer ratio has deteriorated compared to early September. The data suggests AI companies ...

Google, Reddit Complaints Allege Texas Web-Scraping Service Violates DMCA Google alleges SerpApi is a “parasitic” enterprise. SerpApi maintains its services are protected by the First Amendment and ...

Google claims SerpApi built tools specifically to bypass its new "SearchGuard" defense system. The lawsuit targets the "trafficking" of circumvention tools under the DMCA, not just scraping. Google is ...

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 ...