[HN Gopher] Show HN: SerpApi MCP Server
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       Show HN: SerpApi MCP Server
        
       Author : thefoolofdaath
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2025-12-05 18:30 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | icyfox wrote:
       | I used Serp via API many moons ago. The most interesting part of
       | the company imo is their legal defense of different plans:
       | Production - $150       15,000 searches / month       U.S. Legal
       | Shield
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       | ie. "Our U.S. Legal Shield protects your right to crawl and parse
       | public search engine data under the First Amendment. We assume
       | scraping and parsing liability for customers on most recurring
       | plans unless your usage is illegal."
       | 
       | I imagine at least some portion of companies use them just for
       | this liability shield.
        
         | ceejayoz wrote:
         | Sounds a lot like the old guarantee paid SSL certificate
         | providers used to offer; pretty words, but meaningless in
         | practice. (IIRC, no one ever got a payout from any of them.)
         | 
         | "We assume scraping and parsing liabilities for both domestic
         | and foreign companies _unless your usage is otherwise illegal_
         | " seems like a big loophole in it.
        
         | scosman wrote:
         | > unless your usage is illegal
         | 
         | Like copyright infringement of Google's search results?
        
         | perks_12 wrote:
         | Couldn't this be laid out as, We assume scraping and parsing
         | liability unless it is ruled as being illegal, in which case
         | your use would be illegal and our liability shield wouldn't
         | help you?
        
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