From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...

Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search ...

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...

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: ...

Just eight months after Gemini 2.5 launched, Google has upgraded its AI models once again with the release of Gemini 3. Gemini 3 officially began rolling out widely on November 18, and even this early ...

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, ...

Wells Fargo has asked Trustly, a Stockholm-based data aggregator, to stop screen scraping the bank's customer data and to not use the bank's logo to do so. Wells Fargo and PNC have asked Trustly to ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity and data scrapers, accusing them of illegally stealing its data. In the lawsuit, Reddit detailed a trap that it says Perplexity fell straight into. It was the digital ...

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...

On Wednesday, Reddit filed a lawsuit against AI company Perplexity and three other companies alleging the AI company illegally scraped Reddit data through the use of data scraping companies based in ...

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit (RDDT.N), opens new tab sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of ...