Google's still cool...

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060120-105609

not that they won't some time in the future, but for now Google has shown a capacity not seen before in a company that size. Restraint and respect for the consumer. Perhaps it is part of a marketing strategy to reassure those with privacy concerns. I mean how better to gain 'street cred' than by going up agains a government intrusion of our privacy.

And the demand from the government, give us the log files for EVERY SEARCH and every RESULT... "every"

wtf... if the government wants to know where the HTM (harmful to minors) material is, why don't they crawl the web... It would be difficult, but not MUCH more difficult that parsing every log file from the top search engines. MSN and Yahoo already caved btw...

I believe usage statistics is a commodity item owned by the consumer/user... I think we need a government that understands this. A government that will stand up to the silly corporate mentality, where fear of liability cause injustice and harsh treatment of individuals. They put their faith in a process, in hopes that it will protect them from making a wrong move.

Well, giving up the records was the wrong move... MSN doesn't own my usage stats, they are not their's to seel (or give away).

Looks like my recent perusal of other search technologies just ended. Google has shown themselves (again) to be the only guys on the block that know what is going on.

power to the users...
down with the MCP...