Google refuses White House search request

Google is resisting a White House subpoena to hand over a list of all search requests over a single week, which could span tens of millions of queries, as well as a million randomly selected addresses from the index of websites that Google searches.

The Bush administration wants to build up a profile of internet use in order to defend an online pornography law, to understand the behavior of current web users and to estimate how often web users encounter harmful-to-minors material in the course of their searches.

This has raised serious privacy concerns and Google is unwilling to reveal information about those who use its services as well as being concerned about the danger of revealing commercial secrets to its competitors in the process. A reminder is given that users should be careful when entering searches since what they enter could come back to haunt them.

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