Google has consistently maintained that it does not scrape other websites for its data. “We crawl or scrape websites to source these texts,” Google said in a blog post before Genius submitted the business. “The texts you see in information boxes on Search come directly from text content providers, and they are automatically updated as we regularly receive new texts and corrections.”
Despite the legal gain, the problem is probably not gone. As The edge points out, the subject of Google’s data from its competitors is something that came to the fore at the recent anti-trust hearing that the company took last month. Another company that has accused Google of stealing its data is Yelp. In one of the more heated exchanges during the panel, attorney David Cicilline asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai about Yelp. To Yelp’s complaints, he asked the executive if he thought Google had acted in a way that was anti-competitive to the company. “When I run the business, I’m really focused on giving users what they want,” Pichai said. “We lead ourselves to the highest standard.”
