SerpApi moves to dismiss Google's amended complaint in scraping lawsuit

SerpApi has filed a motion to dismiss Google's amended lawsuit after the court previously dismissed the original complaint in July.

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Briefing

SerpApi: SerpApi has filed a motion to dismiss Google's amended lawsuit after the court previously dismissed the original complaint in July.

Why it matters

This ongoing legal battle tests the boundaries of web scraping legality, particularly for search engine results. If SerpApi succeeds in getting the case dismissed again, it could reinforce the precedent that scraping publicly accessible data is permissible, which would have significant implications for the entire data extraction industry.

Sources

Primary source · SerpApi · 2026-08-25 — Google tried again. We’re moving to dismiss their claims a second time.

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Will the court grant SerpApi's motion to dismiss, or will Google's amended complaint survive to proceed to discovery?

Topics: SerpApi, Google, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, legal-action, lawsuit, search-engine-scraping, serpapi, google