Google sues web scraper for sucking search results ‘on a staggering scale’

In an effort to stop this harmful misappropriation and protect its relationships with partners, Google has developed and deployed a technological measure, known as SearchGuard, that restricts access to its search results pages and the copyrighted content they contain. So that you can continue to use it for free, SerpApi has developed a SearchGuard gimmick. Through the automated queries it sends, SerpApi engages in a wide range of misrepresentations and evasions in order to bypass technological protections deployed by Google. But every time you use these tricks, SerpApi is violating federal law…

When SearchGuard launched in January 2025, it effectively blocked SerpApi from accessing Google search results and Google partners’ copyrighted content. But SerpApi immediately began working on a way to circumvent Google’s technological protection measures. SerpApi quickly discovered and deployed ways to do this.

SerpApi’s answer to SearchGuard is to hide the hundreds of millions of automated queries you send to Google every day To make it appear as if it is coming from human users. The founder of SerpApi recently described the process as “creating fake browsers using a large number of IP addresses that Google recognizes as normal users.”