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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you smell like a monkey

it's google's birthday apparently and so they release a larger database. according to their blog, the new search index is 1,000 times larger than their original index. this probably refers to the ~4,000,000,000 page index they had, which means that there new index probably contains about 4,000,000,000,000 (4 trillion) pages. they claim this is 3x more than any of their competitors.
no googol yet!

another gruesome display

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/06/scoop_stick_you.php
the pig-bastards over @ google want to start driving around major cities photographing and measuring buildings. this data will be used for their Google Local and Google Earth projects most likely.

i don't really like the idea of google blanketing neighborhoods with surveillance equipment.

but whatever.

look @ Earth... for FREE!!!

Google Earth is now FREE. travel most of the world w/ pretty good resolution! turn on 3D buildings, and see what some buildings would look like if they were all grey! high rez textures for these can't be too far away.

if your too scared to use Google's, then you could always use NASA's WorldWind.

McGoogle

more than 8,000,000,000 served.
the next version of google is out, and it has doubled in size.
woo.

as if i was completely wrong.

i just found keyhole.com, recently acquired by google. it was initially funded by Sony Broadband and also invested into by the CIA's non-profit investment fund, In-Q-Tel. satellite imagery of the entire Earth and Mars, on your screen and updated every 2 months to 3 years, with resolution down to about a foot. all for $29 a year.

sources:

• http://www.keyhole.com/body.php?h=about
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/28/google_buys_keyhole/

images:

"don't be evil"

well that was quick.
someone from a forum i haunt hooked me up. all my usual aliases were already taken tho, so that's a bit annoying. not that i give a fuck of course.

who's to say that Yahoo or Hotmail or AOL or your own ISP doesn't have a searchable database of your emails?

it's the fucking internet.

just so i remember tho:
my IP address, everything in this blog, the Gmail account, what i search for at google.com, could, technically, all be in the same searchable database.

Google... you fuckin' cops.

so who are you guys anyway? the CIA i suppose. hundreds of thousands of computers scraping and saving everything you can find. of course there is the no robots meta tag, but what the fuck is that, ya know? are meta tags laws now? we know ya don't look tho.

i must admit that you aren't as bad as; what is it? internet archive or something? yeah, web.archive.org with their fuckin' "Way Back Machine"... crazy....

you guys barely do anything, so it was no suprise that you barely made money w/ your IPO. less than what was expected anyway. woo-hoo, CPC ads, ya know? put an ad on your front page and you'd see some cash tho. that space seems reserved for santa claus and the easter bunny tho. no Google logo made from a Coke can yet.