Julien Khaleghy

July 20, 2026. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted our motion to dismiss Google’s lawsuit, marking a win not just for SerpApi, but for all who depend on an open internet. We’re pleased that the court rejected Google’s attempts to expand the DMCA to assert control over access to public pages. The internet’s founding principle – open access to usable information – is essential to driving innovation and ensuring everyone benefits from the promise of data.

Reddit does not own the user-generated content on its platform. Its users do. Reddit’s own user agreement says so. But last October, Reddit served SerpApi, Perplexity, and two other webscraping companies with a lawsuit making absurd claims of copyright protections over information that its users post. The lawsuit was light on facts and theories but full of inflammatory language.

Google thinks it owns the internet. That's the subtext of its lawsuit against SerpApi, the quiet part that it's suddenly decided to shout out loud. The problem is, no one owns the internet. And the law makes that clear. In January, we promised that we would fight this lawsuit to protect our business model and the researchers and innovators who depend on our technology. Today, Friday, February 20, 2026, we’re following through with a motion to dismiss Google’s complaint.