I've never heard of the modifing wikipedia information. That's crazy. I think Google made the best possible move by not bowing to government pressure because now they will be the ones on top when privacy-interested users start migrating away from Yahoo and MSN

If all they where interested in was busting child porn they should be requesting info from the porn sites not google. Although I think its sick and the people that look for that stuff should be shot the government should find better ways to enforce the laws. besides after they bust someone they do community service at a school.
I'll look for the article but it actually happened.

if they want to bust porn sites search google for porn find the sites trace ips find the isp's then request w/ a warrent information on the people distibuting these files. they have no problem whatso ever finding the people uploading MI3 and the divinci code.

and lastly if they really want google's search records they should search google you can find anything that way.

Lets face it...I'm all for protecting our rights. I do it for a living and i'd die to protect them. The first thing is that a parent should know what their child is doing at all times on a computer. I'm sorry but the world is too dangerous now adays not to invest that time to knowing. But to play devils advocate here what do we have to worry about if they do hand the records over??? I mean unless your a child predator then you dont have to worry about anything. They are going after the child predators and criminals. Its those people that try to get everyone thinking that our civil rights will be taking away if we let them do that. Come on. If it protects my child the go ahead. I got nothing to worry about.

Well as far as I know, the government can't make google hand over the information. But even so probably 80% of the U.S. uses google so they really want that information. I think it would just be a waste of their time, especially because the logs would be amazingly huge. I sometimes wonder why google even keeps that information, or if they will just start collecting information if somehow the government finds a way to do so. They might as well search in google and see if any bad sites popup. Can they even make google stop having those sights come up?

Its a good move by google. Not only will the consumers be able to trust google and give google their personal info, they will also use more of google's features knowing that google will be responsible for all their private info...which may be good or bad