我们为何对SerpApi的非法抓取行为提起诉讼

内容来源:https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/serpapi-lawsuit/
内容总结:
谷歌公司今日宣布,已对数据抓取公司SerpApi提起诉讼,指控其通过规避安全措施非法抓取受版权保护的搜索内容。谷歌指出,该公司采用伪装身份、操控大规模机器人网络、使用虚假动态名称等技术手段,系统性绕开网站安全防护,严重侵犯了内容提供方的版权与访问控制权。
谷歌强调,其自身爬虫始终遵循行业协议并尊重网站授权规则,而SerpApi等恶意抓取方通过技术欺诈手段劫持搜索结果中的授权内容(包括知识面板图片、实时数据等),并以此牟利。这种行为不仅损害内容创作者权益,更破坏了网络生态的健康发展。
近年来此类恶意抓取行为呈激增态势,谷歌已持续投入大量资源进行技术反制。此次法律行动是继多家网站起诉类似公司后,谷歌为维护网络秩序采取的进一步司法举措,旨在通过法律途径遏制日益猖獗的网络数据盗用现象。
中文翻译:
我们为何对SerpApi的非法抓取行为提起诉讼
今日,我们正式对抓取服务公司SerpApi提起诉讼,因其规避了保护谷歌搜索结果中他人版权内容的安全措施。此举旨在请求法院制止SerpApi的机器人程序及其恶意抓取行为——这些行为侵犯了网站与权利人对内容访问权限的自主决定权。此前已有其他网站对SerpApi及同类抓取公司采取法律行动,本次诉讼亦是我们长期打击网络欺诈与恶意行为的积极维权实践之一。
谷歌始终遵循行业标准的抓取协议,并严格尊重网站对其内容抓取的设置指令。而SerpApi这类隐蔽抓取工具却肆意践踏网站意愿,通过伪装身份、操控大规模机器人网络轰炸网站、为抓取程序伪造并频繁更换名称等灰色手段,绕过我们的安全防护体系批量盗取网站内容。过去一年间,此类非法活动呈现急剧上升态势。
SerpApi以欺诈手段窃取谷歌向第三方授权的内容(如知识图谱中的图片、搜索功能中的实时数据等),转而进行付费转售。在此过程中,其公然漠视搜索结果中内容所属网站及供应商的合法权益与管控指令。
我们投入大量资源打击此类滥用行为,全力维护搜索结果中网站内容的合法权益。当技术防护措施遭遇如此肆意的规避时,采取法律行动成为我们制止此类行为的最终必要手段。
英文来源:
Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping
We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi for circumventing security measures protecting others’ copyrighted content that appears in Google search results. We did this to ask a court to stop SerpApi’s bots and their malicious scraping, which violates the choices of websites and rightsholders about who should have access to their content. This lawsuit follows legal action that other websites have taken against SerpApi and similar scraping companies, and is part of our long track record of affirmative litigation to fight scammers and bad actors on the web.
Google follows industry-standard crawling protocols, and honors websites’ directives over crawling of their content. Stealthy scrapers like SerpApi override those directives and give sites no choice at all. SerpApi uses shady back doors — like cloaking themselves, bombarding websites with massive networks of bots and giving their crawlers fake and constantly changing names — circumventing our security measures to take websites’ content wholesale. This unlawful activity has increased dramatically over the past year.
SerpApi deceptively takes content that Google licenses from others (like images that appear in Knowledge Panels, real-time data in Search features and much more), and then resells it for a fee. In doing so, it willfully disregards the rights and directives of websites and providers whose content appears in Search.
We devote significant resources to fighting this abuse and protecting websites’ content in our results. When our technical security protections are circumvented in such a brazen way, as a last resort we take legal action to stop this behavior.