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The U.S. Government subpoenaed the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo! and MSN) for one weeks worth of people's IP addresses who searched for porn.

Yahoo! and MSN complied with the Goverenment, Google took the Government to court

"So Google pulled out all its guns, battling the government in court for the past few months. On March 17, Google got what it wanted: It doesn't have to turn over the search terms."

"A recent government find contends that four in 10 people use the Net to look for porn. So, it's a good bet, Ware figures, that by turning over search terms, Google runs the risk of possibly outing some of its customers' sexual proclivities. And that would be an invasion of privacy. As Ware noted, porn is 'generally not information that anyone wishes to reveal publicly,' and that 'gives this court pause.'"