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 ...

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: ...

RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web. RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across ...

Abstract: Web scraping is an essential tool for automating the data-gathering process for big data applications. There are many implementations for web scraping, but barely any of them is based on ...

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 ...

Keizo Asami Institute, iLIKA, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil Graduate Program in Biology Applied to Health, PPGBAS, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, ...

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 ...

Hundreds of browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have adopted a new monetization tactic: tapping into your PC’s resources to scrape the web. Although not strictly malware – and often ...