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Old 01-20-2006, 01:18 PM  
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cliff notes...

The government first wanted to seize records without understanding it would be nearly impossible to understand them without google first teaching them how they work thus passing along valuable propriety info.. ( actually it was a 2 part request 1 wanting info about searches and who does them , the second being to establish an "example" internet based on google content so they could build filters and such )

Then they decided/realised its going to be nearly impossible to track what certain people search int hat fashion so they just went for random samples of 10,000 urls from each of 100 google datacenters. But of course why would google just "give" them this info..

Basically the gov is saying " We notice google has been doing lots of work for years to build this database , now we want to steal it and use it for our own needs , and not compensate you "
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