Google Battles U.S. Department of Justice
January 23, 2006 at 8:00 AM
Librarians use search engines like Google dozens of times a day, and we also care deeply about issues like library patron privacy. That’s why we were heartened to see that Google is refusing to comply with a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena, which asked Google to supply the goverment with a list of every search term entered by Google users during a specified week. DOJ filed a motion to compel compliance with the subpoena on January 18. Google’s associate general counsel Nicole Wong stated that Google plans to fight the DOJ request "vigorously." For a sampling of news coverage of this controversy, see these links from Google News.
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Ross Dalangin April 24, 2007 at 5:24 AM
That's a big issue. It's their business and crawler is automated. Google use robots/spider to crawl site ot their database. Did you know that one guy sue google for getting his site index in google's database? In his site displayed no one is allowed to get their content and will be sued. :)
Regards
Ross
