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Google blasts President Bush Associated Press | February 18 2006 Google Inc. on Friday criticized the Bush administration's demand to examine millions of its users' Internet search requests as a misguided fishing expedition that threatens to ruin the company's credibility and reveal its closely guarded secrets. The company delivered its indignant critique in a 25-page brief that marked its initial legal response to the US Justice Department's attempt to force the online search engine leader to comply with a 6-month-old subpoena. The Justice Department has until Feb. 24 to respond to the papers that Google filed Friday. A hearing for oral arguments is scheduled March 13 before US District Judge James Ware in San Jose, California. The case has attracted widespread attention because the Justice Department's demand to peek under the hood of the Internet's most popular search engine has underscored the potential for online databases becoming tools for government surveillance. Hoping to revive an online child protection law that has been blocked by the US Supreme Court, the Justice Department wants a random list of the search requests made by the millions of people who visit Google during any week. The government believes the search requests will help prove that Internet filters aren't strong enough to prevent children from accessing online pornography and other potentially offensive Websites. Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Inc.'s MSN and Time Warner Inc.'s American Online already have provided some of the search engine information sought by the Justice Department. All three companies say they complied without relinquishing their users' private information. ---------------------------------------------------
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