Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests

ALBERTO R. GONZALES, in his officialcapacity as Attorney General of the United
States,Plaintiff,v. GOOGLE, INC.,Defendant.
The full 21-page order PDF "this case raises three vital interests:

(1) the national interest in a judicial system to reach informed decisions through the power of a subpoena to compel a third party to produce relevant information;

(2) the third-party's interest in not being compelled by a subpoena to reveal confidential business information and devote resources to a distant litigation; and

(3) the interest of individuals in freedom from general surveillance by the Government of their use of the Internet or othercommunications media.In aid of the Government’s position

Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests - Forbes.com: "A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government's demand for a list of people's search requests - potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect...

... District Judge James Ware told Google to provide the U.S. Justice Department with the addresses of 50,000 randomly selected Web sites indexed by its search engine by April 3...." The judge " though, decided Google won't have to disclose what people have been looking for on its widely used search engine, handing a significant victory to the company and privacy rights advocates."