Google to not reveal search engine request queries

Search engine giants Google has come out as the winner in the courts as the judge gave out a positive ruling in their favor. The search engine company would only be required to give a list of randomly selected 50,000 websites indexed by its search engine by April 3.

The judge has flatly refused that the government and the US DoJ cannot demand a list of people’s search requests on their search engines. The US government had planned to use this information to revive a law meant to shield children from online pornography.

Google lawyer Nicole Wong spoke about this ruling, which is potentially a win for the web user’s privacy rights on the internet: “We will always be subject to government subpoenas, but the fact that the judge sent a clear message about privacy is reassuring.”

He added: “What his ruling means is that neither the government nor anyone else has carte blanche when demanding data from Internet companies.” The US government had demanded an entire week’s worth of Google search requests from the company.

The ruling also make AOL, Yahoo! and MSN people look like bad guys considering they have already confirmed to have complied with the government’s demand. More reasons for the users to prefer Google to these companies for their searches on the internet.