Delay in Google"s courtroom duel with US government, Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news10549.html

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There are lots of software packages that monitor your kids internet traffic and block any *** sites. It is up to the parents to control what your kids do on the internet. On most *** sites it asks if you are 18 or older and all you have to do is click yes or no.

But in the big picture I think this whole thing is a cover story. The government is looking for something else in the database...

Hello all

It seems to me that they should be able to develop a parental lock out of cookie technology. This cookie would require a password to complete the "18 year old question" when you push the button. As long as the parents took the time to set a password this could work for adult only sites. Of course there would have to be some sort of regulatory body to make sure web sites complied with the "password cookie technology".

Google vs. Big Brother.

As I have post in the newsgroups,
people don't want the government or a company,
or for that matter anyone, to accumulate enormous
amounts of personal information about them.

This attitude stems from the fact that people want to
be as flexible as possible, and people can use personal
information so as to constrant the responses of anyone to anything.
For example, note how the Bush administration distorts information
about congresspersons and presidential candidates to create the
impression that that they are flip flopping, etc.

In any case, the search company that will win the browser wars, and
the government that will win the global wars, are those that serve
the people, while allowing them to remain annonymous.

Google is making a long term mistake by accumulating information on its' users, and eventually they will have to drop this policy, or else a new search frim, perhaps in China, Japan, Russia or India, will become the Google of the future.

The best policy for search engines is to inserts ads
based on the search, rather than the knowledge about the searcher.
If Google does not adopt this policy, some search engine will,
and they will gradually become the new leaders.

Tom Potter