Google, U.S. clash over online searches

Google is rebuffing the Bush administration’s demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet’s leading search engine - a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools of the government.

Mountain View-based Google has refused to comply with a White House subpoena first issued last summer, prompting U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to ask a federal judge in San Jose for an order to force a handover of the requested records.

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