Quote Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
While on the topic of google ... the reason they've resisted in complying has nothing to do with their "do no evil" (which the founders know is total b.s.), but rather google is fearful their competitors could potentially learn the details of how such search data is stored / utilized if they turn it over to the govt.

Ron
But there are already several companies which have their own internet search setups. It only takes about 10K to setup a google search. Yeah, there are monthly fees after that, and that is what google created ad-words for, to setup the search, which makes google search just a marketing piece for the company.