July 29, 2026

Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.

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Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a federal judge dismissed Google’s lawsuit against Ser...