Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests

“Search engines now play such an important part in our daily lives that many people probably contact Google more often than they do their own mother,” said Thomas Burke, a San Francisco attorney.

“Just as most people would be upset if the government wanted to know how much you called your mother and what you talked about, they should be upset about this, too.”

I’m not sure that is really an accurate analogy. For example, I wouldn’t be terribly upset if the government wanted to know that I searched Google on Thursday to find a recipe for carrot cake.

I would, however, be extremely upset if the government wanted to know that I called my mother at 3 A.M. on Saturday looking for links to DoubleFistedClownAnus.com.

(For the record, carrot cake uses two cups of sugar, not one, and my mom says that GoatseTheClown.com has the hottest clown fisting porn she has ever seen.)