From the Mercury News, Feds want Google search records.

Looks like a government fishing expedition:

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law was meant to punish online pornography sites that make their content inaccessible to minors....

[The subpoena] includes a request for one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.

Google refused:

In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records....saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets....the company will fight the government's effort ``vigorously.''

``Google is not a party to this lawsuit, and the demand for the information is overreaching,'' [spokesperson Nicole] Wong said.

But other search engines have caved:

The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed to release the information, but not Google.

It would have been easier and cheaper for Google to quietly hand over the information the government requested, including your innocent searches, search results, and what sites you clicked on. You and I would have been none the wiser.

But that would have been evil.