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- MrvinPA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10No need to be careful of what you search. Just don't go around murdering people!
- dean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4He should have also searched for 'delete,' 'temp,' 'files.'
- addisonj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uhhh... Google did not have search history back in 2002, and also... its easy to delete the records from google search history, in addition to that, you really think they log all searches from all IP's on the internet? Thats just insane, google does million of millions (billions?) of searches every day. Even if it was recorded, that would be sooo much data to ever sort through, the guy just didn't know how to cover his tracks
- josman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unless, of course, you search "aim", "lead", "children" and "200 yards"... In which case, you get what you deserve!
- esourcemag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0deleting your temp files won't matter if you have your Google search history on.
lol - Ruqsaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"snap" "break" "hold" ? could have been doing football research... dang I should be a lawyer. Ofcourse I can't explain "neck"...
- Tomato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oops, my bad... nevermind - GOOGLE it is! ;)
- MauroCol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and the murder happened about 2 years ago!!
- jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doesn't matter if you clear your Google search history. It is still available for subpoena in Google's data warehouse. Clever prosecutors still haven't seen to gotten in on the act of subpoena'ing search records from the search companies themselves... yet.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah Google seems to maintain their own search history database on you. For convenience!
- Tomato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Article reads that he searched "on an Internet search engine" which may or may not be Google.
- rhyno2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Be aware that if you use GMail Notifier, you are usually logged in "behind the scenes". I've noticed that most times I've done searches, they're actually recorded under my Google account - even though I never actively signed in.
So when you're searching for stuff you don't want a record of ... (not me, of course, I heard this from a friend) keep this in mind. - drysz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very scary stuff. We start with Google only giving info to law enforcement. Before we know it, they will be selling this information to insurance companies or employers...
- sleeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At least Google is used for all walks of life.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Thursday will be a bittersweet day for the Sutphen brothers and their older half-brother. It would have been their mother's 60th birthday."
We should be mindful that there's real people on the end of this story. It must be terrible for the family to go through all this. Um, and I'm sure this isn't the first time Google has been used in some sort of evidence giving way. Still cool though. Yeah, hopefully the alleged killer gets what they deserve. Wife-killing husbands seem to never learn huh? - TheCasablancan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can see the fanboy headlines now... "GOOGLE Solves Murder Mystery!"
- physivic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this monkey should have dumped the hard drive in the river along with his wife. anyway I agree w/mrvinpa. What a Sick-O! How do rotten people like this get brewed in the first place?
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And when they search my hard drive, they'll only find that I searched for "bite" "me" and "pigs".
- Hergio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am glad they were to find such evidence. But chances are, he was not logged into Google while performing those searches. That'd be pretty stupid and obvious, even for him. If you aren't logged in, for the most part, its anonymous searching.
It would take alittle more work to get a person's 'anonymous' searches from Google...you'd have to get the IP of the user for a certain time period from their ISP and then get the searches made by that IP during that time period. They found the evidence on his own computer as web surfing history. - ghostaliaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use a firefox extention called ( CustomizeGoogle) & it has a privacy tab in it when you right click on it in the extensions tab and you can check for it not to keep a record on you & make you anonymous from there tracking cookie and crap. I also did a search on (google search history ) & I found a website to log into and then look at all of my searches that I have ever done on google and then it says on the left ( remove cached sites) or something like that, then at the top you check mark (Select All) & then press delete,then you keep selecting all at the top and then delete until it says that you have no more messages. and thats it. Good Luck!
- xeomage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pfft. Any smart person knows that criminal-related activities (even searching for information) shouldn't be done from your home computer.
- Pile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Read Google's privacy policy some times. Whatever you type in they own and have no intention of ever deleting, regardless of whether you clear your local cache.
http://www.bsalert.com/artsearch.php?fn=2&as=897&dt=1 - Hergio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> I think the assumption is that the data would still
> exist on Google's records regardless of his actions
It wasn't google search history that burned him. It was his own hard drive.
> you really think they log all searches from
> all IP's on the internet?
Please look at http://www.google.com/privacy.html to see "Google's servers automatically record information when you visit our website or use some of our products, including the URL, IP address,..."
> its easy to delete the records from
> google search history
And from Google's Personalized Search Privacy FAQ: "You can delete information from Personalized Search using the search history feature, and it will be removed from the service. However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users." - commandar!, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Unless, of course, you search "aim", "lead", "children" and "200 yards"... In which case, you get what you deserve!"
How can you shoot innocent women and children?
EASY! YOU JUST DON'T LEAD'EM SO MUCH! - Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Stuff like this isn't really new. It's one of those things that, although not usually impressive to a judge, gets absolutely lapped up by juries.
- amitrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0holy ***** guys!!! how do i get rid of the following search:
"chick" and "next door" and "missionary" and "kama sutra" and "mother and child disappear".... - lexbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"100 Million Pages?!?!" Woah, time to set that browser cache a little smaller.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> his monkey should have dumped the hard drive in the river along with his wife.
Um, I think the assumption is that the data would still exist on Google's records regardless of his actions. Isn't that what the posters above are suggesting? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> Please look at http://www.google.com/privacy.html to see "Google's
> servers automatically record information when you visit our website
> or use some of our products, including the URL, IP address,..."
My good man, ALL servers do that. What he's talking about is logging all your search queries forever, which is ridiculous. They probably got this off the undeletable IE search history on his hard drive (see http://www.microsuck.com/ ). - josman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Did I forget to mention that this Brain-donor is acting as his own defense attorney...
- mercury81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ok this guy must be the village idiot if he needs to do a web search on how to rub out somebody.
- silentauthority, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lol. I heard this before.. but that's just because my local station /is/ wral...so yah.
Go living in raleigh and getting wral!
lol.not. - OpticalLiam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But look at it this way - didn't Google help to kill her?
- znxster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0little misleading in the title, users own machine was used as evidence against him.. therefore this is uninteresting really...
- bearokopoulos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0On the other side of the coin, there's the poor guy in Australia who placed a call to the national hotline about potential terrorist. His info was used in the arrest warrants to pick up 18 people in Sydney and Melbourne. Unfortunately, a copy of the arrest warrants were left with each suspect, and they included the informers name! The poor guy is probably in witness protection as we speak.
http://www.illmethinks.com/illmethinks_politiq/2005/11/leaks_in_austra.html
Bear - capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is why I do all of my potential murder research at the public library...
- dannywsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I second mrvinpa's comments!
- comradevik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://digg.com/security/Google_is_a_spy
google is really a spy
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