Google data request fuels fears
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At first glance it is hard to understand why the US Government's Justice Department wants Google to hand over a week's worth of search data.
To begin with, this would be a huge amount of information to paw through. In an average week, Google handles between 500 million and a billion searches.
While this is far less than the US government's request for 60 days worth of data, it is likely to produce a huge file tens, if not hundreds, of gigabytes in size.
At first glance it is hard to understand why the US Government's Justice Department wants Google to hand over a week's worth of search data.To begin with, this would be a huge amount of information to paw through. In an average week, Google handles between 500 million and a billion searches.
While this is far less than the US government's request for 60 days worth of data, it is likely to produce a huge file tens, if not hundreds, of gigabytes in size.
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