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vroom P is for Practical  Comment on  Google is keeping our
privacy in that they aren't supplying information to anyone
other than what you can already mine from a variety of public
sources. They are not giving user search info to government
agencies - to do so would immediately kill their market share
while not really improving US security. People would just switch
to the next largest search engine and the government would be
back to square one.  Sadly for Google, being the big dog means
that everyone wants to knock them down a notch. It's like being
the head of a major government agency - everyone gets on your
case while the second in command is allowed to float. The
government is busily being a pain to Google, but I bet they
aren't bothering any of the other search engines.  Note that I
don't really care much if they go through any search results
relating to terrorism - that's a matter of national security and
anyone stupid enough to search for