As widely expected, Google notified a federal court on Friday that it will not comply with a subpoena by the U.S. Department of Justice to produce a random sample of the searches performed on its search engine in 2005.
However, few observers expected the company to put that refusal into an indignant 25-page brief that depicts Justice Department lawyers as burdensome, poorly thought out and technologically naive.
The Justice Department wants to use abstract data from Google and other top search engines to build a picture of the amount of pornography on the Web and how effective today
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