Google is to discard some of the information it stores about user search requests in an effort to address concerns by privacy watchdogs and defend itself against government demands for data. The search giant will scrub personal information from cookies and remove some of the bits in IP addresses after that information has been stored for a set period of time, probably 18 to 24 months, a Google official wrote in a company blog. It expects to roll out the new policy by the end of the year. Until now, Google has kept information that can link specific searches to individual users indefinitely, potentially providing a trove of data to prosecutors or rogue employees with the proper credentials. FULL STORY

18 to 24 months may as well be forever. Try scroogle: http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scr... ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

I won't believe it as long as AG Gonzales & his boss are in charge. i_XpUser