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 results, Reuters reports.

According to the lawsuit, Serpapi then resold the collected data to third-party customers. The company denies the allegations and says it will defend itself in court.

Serpapi says its service only provides information that is already publicly available through a standard web browser. According to the company, Google is trying to limit competition from companies building new AI and web services on open web data.

Earlier this year, Reddit also sued Serpapi, along with other data collectors, for scraping content for the purpose of training AI models. In a comment to Reuters, Reddit’s spokesperson said that the company supports Google’s lawsuit.

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