NEW YORK — By Stephanie Forward, AI Bee Reel Staff

February 21, 2026

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — The trial of the century paused today when legal teams for Google and SerpApi put on matching red and blue spandex suits. They stood on tables pointing at each other while the Honorable Judge Miller tried to figure out who actually owns the internet.

"We cannot let people steal our stolen goods," said Brad Jenkins, VP of Search Integrity. "SerpApi is taking our results at an astonishing scale. We spent twenty years taking that data from websites without asking. It is unfair for them to take what we took."

"It is a matter of principle," explained Sarah Lee, Director of Copy Paste. She pointed to a diagram of a burglar robbing another burglar. "If we let them scrape us, soon someone will scrape them. Then the internet is just robots reading to other robots. We must keep the web human by being the only robot."

At press time, Google updated its Terms of Service to claim full legal ownership of the ‘Cmd+C’ keyboard shortcut.

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