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Google Deploys Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite in Search While SerpApi Lawsuit Gets Dismissed

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Google deployed Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite to Search, a court dismissed its scraping lawsuit against SerpApi, and Google Ads enforced new appeal deadlines and reorganized features.

SERoundtable reports that Google Search is now running on Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for agentic search experiences and likely AI Overviews, while a federal judge granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss Google's copyright infringement lawsuit, giving Google 21 days to refile if it can prove copyright owner authorization. The outlet also details three Google Ads changes: the Missed Opportunities report moved from Labs to the Recommendations tab, appeals are now capped at 6 months post-notice, and Google updated crawl budget documentation to clarify that all sites start with conservative default capacity.
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