Yahoo Gave Search Data To Bush Administration Lawyers

in other news, Yahoo! bent right over and gave up their info to the government. it is concerning child porn, which i don't think is legal anywhere on this planet, but there is still a slight sting from a broad sweep like this. it's not exactly a warrant.

"Yahoo Inc. on Thursday acknowledged handing over search data requested in a subpoena from the Bush administration, which is hoping to use the information to revive an anti-porn law"

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Feds want Google search records

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...Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government's effort ``vigorously.''

google almost suprises me with this. on one hand, they know everything that is on the internet, and who else would love that besides a government agency. on the other hand, the constitutional right to search.

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DMOZ's ODP with it's sites sorted by color

this is a project of mine whose goal is to see the true color of the internet. as of now it shows each category/sub-category's sites' thumbshots, arranged from light to dark.
a sample of what this script can do, can also be found @ http://odp.420666.net/images/sample.gif - which was done w/ about 5,000 of the personal webpages in ODP.

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